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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." George Bernard Shaw 4.857142857142857 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates." Henry Thoreau 2.6666666666666665 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." Henry Mencken 4.2727272727272725 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A word to the wise is infuriating." Hunter S. Thompson 4.384615384615385 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." Hunter S. Thompson 4.377777777777778 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Knowledge is not wisdom, unless used wisely." J.D. Anderson 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom." J.R.R. Tolkien 4.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The wise speak only of what they know." J.R.R. Tolkien 4.678571428571429 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" Jean-Jacques Rousseau 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents." Kahlil Gibran 3.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." Marcel Proust 4.7368421052631575 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man." Marcus Aurelius 4.72 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature." Marcus Tullius Cicero 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." Oscar Wilde 4.842105263157895 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Life is a festival only to the wise." Ralph Waldo Emerson 3.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.333333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces." Rudyard Kipling 3.272727272727273 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." Saint Augustine 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom." Samuel Taylor Coleridge 4.888888888888889 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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