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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Secrets
Samuel Johnson

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
Virtue
David Starr Jordan

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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
Nature
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Wisdom
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Advice
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Fear
Lucius C. Lactantius

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Wisdom
Doug Larson

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
Wisdom
Robert E. Lee

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
Wisdom
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Wisdom
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
Miracles
John Locke

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Wisdom
Maurice Maeterlinck

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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Wisdom
Orison Swett Marden

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Age and Aging
H. L. Mencken

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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Cheerfulness
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Wisdom
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
Wisdom
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
Love
Madame Neckar

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Wisdom
Friedrich Nietzsche

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Wisdom
Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Wisdom
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
Wisdom
Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna

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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
Wisdom
John Patrick

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Change
Octavio Paz

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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
Greed
William Penn

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