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Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Bigotry
Josh Billings

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.
Wisdom
Frank Birch

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
Time and Time Management
William Blake

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The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Excess
William Blake

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
Wisdom
E. S. Bouton

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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.
Authority
Anne Bradstreet

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Wisdom
Bertolt Brecht

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Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
Self-control
Robert Burns

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Wisdom
Leo Buscaglia

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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Morality
Lord Byron

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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Knowledge
Sandara Carey

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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Ignorance
Thomas Carlyle

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
Wisdom
John Cheever

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Wisdom
Chinese Proverb

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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Wisdom
Chinese Proverb

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Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom.
Doubt
Chinese Proverb

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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Names
Chinese Proverb

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Knowledge
Marcus T. Cicero

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Marcus T. Cicero

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.
Wisdom
Jean Cocteau

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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Advice
John Churton Collins

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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Doubt
Charles Caleb Colton

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.
Change
Confucius

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Wisdom
Confucius

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
Knowledge
William Cowper

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