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   WISDOM



  The highest wisdom is kindness.

   ~ The Gemara ~



   A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

   ~ African Proverb ~



   Wisdom begins at the end.

   ~ Daniel Webster ~



     He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

   ~ Voltaire ~


  
   Knowledge studies others; wisdom is self-known.

   ~ Lao Tzu ~



   Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

   ~ Source Unknown ~



   Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
   Seek what they sought.

   ~ Basho ~



   Knowledge studies others; wisdom is self-known.

   ~ Lao Tzu ~



   Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise.
   Wisdom makes life endurable.

   ~ John Patrick ~



   The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

   ~ Frank Birch ~



    In much wisdom is much grief; and he that
    increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

   ~ Bible ~


   Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

   ~ Miguel De Cervantes ~



   True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things
   out of each day as it goes by.

   ~ E. S. Bouton ~



   Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and
   when to mind your speech.

   ~ Evangel ~



   The man who questions opinions is wise.
   The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

   ~ Frank Garbutt ~



    Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

   ~ Herbert Clark Hoover ~



   Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

   ~ Horace ~



   This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are
   earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

   ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~



   The doors of wisdom are never shut.

   ~ Benjamin Franklin ~



   Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one
   concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to
   anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

   ~ Sigmund Freud ~



   By the time your life is finished, you will have learned
   just enough to begin it well.

   ~ Eleanor Marx ~



   It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

   ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld ~



   No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise
   as the average woman of forty-eight.

   ~ H. L. Mencken ~



   They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

   ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller ~



   Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

   ~ Phaedrus ~



   To be wise and love exceeds man's might.

   ~ William Shakespeare ~



   The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

   ~ Camerounian Proverb ~



   Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

   ~ Sophocles ~



   It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

   ~ Philippe Quinault ~



   More wisdom is latent in things as they are than
   in all the words men use.

   ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery ~



   Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding
   it is established;and by knowledge shall every room
   be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

   ~ Bible ~



   Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of
   individual men by travelling the old road of observation,
   attention, perseverance, and industry.

   ~ Samuel Smiles ~



   A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom
   that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

   ~ Mark Twain ~



   Understanding the limitations of human beings
   as well as understanding your own is
   the beginning of true wisdom.

   ~ Source Unknown ~



   Wisdom is the power to put our time and
   our knowledge to the proper use.

   ~ Thomas J. Watson ~



   If you wish to know the road up the mountain,
   ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

   ~ Zenrin ~





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