Wisdom Quotes

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There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. — Edmund Burke
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. — Stephen Covey
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety. — Tryon Edwards
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. — Mason Cooley
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and… — Robert Foster Bennett
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity. — Arthur Cohn
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he… — Archibald MacLeish
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your… — Molly Ringwald
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found? — Harold Bloom
People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of… — Robert Coover
One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind. — Ishmael Reed
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity. — Edward Abbey
One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding;… — Edward Abbey
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. — Jane Austen
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave… — Edmund Burke
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate… — Thomas Jefferson
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue.… — Benjamin Franklin
The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our great happiness, to… — George Washington
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day — Thomas Paine

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