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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Books - Reading
Sir John Denham

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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Love
Charles Dickens

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There is no wisdom like frankness.
Candor
Benjamin Disraeli

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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Quotations
Isaac Disraeli

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All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Wisdom
Alexandre Dumas

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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Fools and Foolishness
George Eliot

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Pity
George Eliot

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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
Information
T. S. Eliot

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
Wisdom
Queen Elizabeth

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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Fools and Foolishness
Havelock Ellis

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
Courage
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.
Health
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Finance
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
Wisdom
Epictetus

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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Pessimism
Desiderius Erasmus

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Cleverness is not wisdom.
Cleverness
Euripides

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In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
Goodness
Euripides

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Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
Influence
Euripides

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

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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
Wisdom
Bergen Evans

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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
Dreams
William Faulkner

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Knowledge
Martin H. Fischer

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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Enthusiasm
Anatole France

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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Irony
Anatole France

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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Wisdom
Felix Frankfurter

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun