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180 quotesMen can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
Knowledge
Spanish Proverb
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.
Learning
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it
Wisdom
Konstantin Stanislavisky
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All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
Procrastination
Publilius Syrus
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Knowledge
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Mistakes
Phyllis Therous
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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Wisdom
Henry David Thoreau
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Wisdom
Count Leo Tolstoy
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Memory
Martin Tupper
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Wisdom
Mark Twain
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Pessimism
Mark Twain
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If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
Wisdom
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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.
Knowledge
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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.
Wisdom
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Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
Experience
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The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
Wisdom
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Life and Living
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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Wisdom
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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.
Knowledge
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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.
Wisdom
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You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Wisdom
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
Age and Aging
John Updike
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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
Wisdom
William A. Ward
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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Wisdom
Thomas J. Watson
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Wisdom begins at the end.
Wisdom
Daniel Webster
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun