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Wisdom Quotes by Josh Billings
- 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.
- The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
- Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
- Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has....
- Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
- Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
- There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
- The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
More Wisdom Quotes
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
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- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold