Wisdom Quotes
These are some of the best 'Wisdom' quotations and sayings.
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A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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A sage has one advantage; he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
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A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.
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A word to the wise is infuriating.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Deliberate often - decide once.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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