Wisdom Quotes

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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. — Walter Benjamin
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. — Ezra Taft Benson
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's… — Ezra Taft Benson
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. — Alfred Adler
To understand is to perceive patterns. — Isaiah Berlin
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at… — Georges Bernanos
Even Napoleon had his Watergate. — Yogi Berra
If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced… — Annie Besant
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more. — Mayim Bialik
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. — Ambrose Bierce
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. — Ambrose Bierce
When you doubt, abstain. — Ambrose Bierce
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. — Ambrose Bierce
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. — Josh Billings
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. — Josh Billings
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings
Wisdom comes alone through suffering. — Aeschylus
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own… — Aeschylus
Memory is the mother of all wisdom. — Aeschylus

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