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Wisdom Quotes (page 15)

I've been following the noble profession of hermiting here for nigh on fifty-seven years, practising piety, sobriety, celibacy and the pursuit of true wisdom in the tradition of my father and grandfather and great-grandfather before me. Terry Prachett
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. Theodore Roosevelt
For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? Benjamin Franklin
Paulo Coelho quote: "True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do"
True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do Paulo Coelho
Leo Tolstoy quote: "All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height..."
All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom. Leo Tolstoy
Charles Bukowski quote: "The wisdom to quit is all we have left."
The wisdom to quit is all we have left. Charles Bukowski
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either. Mark Twain
Alexander Dumas quote: "All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!"
All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope! Alexander Dumas
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J. R. R. Tolkien
No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the livs of those within our circle of influence. Gordon B. Hinckley
I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose John F. Kennedy
What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave. Scott Adams
Lao Tzu quote: "If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great..."
If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great path and fear only straying from it. Lao Tzu
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me insufficient for that day. Abraham Lincoln
Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better. Louisa May Alcott

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