Wisdom Quotes

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Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. — Max Frisch
In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues… — Alexander Hamilton
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge. — Dick Gregory
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. — Maurice Maeterlinck
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We get very little wisdom from success, you know. — William Saroyan
The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze. — Ramakrishna
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. — Boyle Roche
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men… — J. William Fulbright
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom… — Charles Caleb Colton
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys… — Pliny the Elder
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind. — Magdalena Abakanowicz
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless. — Herophilos
The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind… — John Milton
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. — Charles Kettering
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. — Aldous Huxley
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear. — Michel de Montaigne
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it… — Edward P. Morgan

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