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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Wisdom
Benjamin Franklin

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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Poetry and Poets
Robert Frost

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Wisdom
Ibn Gabirol

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
Wisdom
John Kenneth Galbraith

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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Events
John Kenneth Galbraith

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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Fools and Foolishness
Elizabeth Gaskell

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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
Teachers and Teaching
Kahlil Gibran

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Wisdom is found only in truth.
Wisdom
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Wisdom
Oliver Goldsmith

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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
Hair
Greek Proverb

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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Morality
Graham Greene

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Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
Ridicule
Franz Grillparzer

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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Books - Reading
John Harington

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We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Advice
Jack Herbert

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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
Beauty
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Wisdom
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Wisdom
Herbert Clark Hoover

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

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
Happiness
Elbert Hubbard

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Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Doubt
George Iles

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When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.
Punishment
Italian Proverb

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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Taxes and Taxation
Andrew Jackson

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
Wisdom
William James

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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Honesty
Thomas Jefferson

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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Love
Samuel Johnson

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