Famous Quotes: Wisdom

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
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There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.
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As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
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Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
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Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
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