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" Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. "
William Temple
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" Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. "
Euripides
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" The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. "
William Hazlitt
Knowledge
Judge
Heart
" Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Work
Wisdom
Time
" To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. "
Akhenaton
Treasure
Mind
Trouble
" Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected. "
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hip-Hop
Outside
Wisdom
" It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. "
Walter Lippmann
Deaf
Music
Nothing
" The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. "
Socrates
True
Know
Nothing
" No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. "
Erica Jong
Race
Fools
Fool
" A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. "
Robert Frost
Delight
Poem
Begins
" The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. "
Michelangelo
Aim
Achieving
Wisdom
" It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. "
John Wooden
Wisdom
Details
Happen
" Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. "
Sidney Hook
Kind
Knowledge
Nature
" We are wiser than we know. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wiser
Wisdom
Know
" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "
Robert Gottlieb
Rate
You
Wisdom
" Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better. "
Travis Bradberry
Better
Wisdom
People
" Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. "
Saadi
Yourself
Wisdom
You
" Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. "
Alan Kay
IQ
Worth
Wisdom
" The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. "
Torquato Tasso
Corn
Harvest
Day
" A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. "
Thomas Paine
Habit
Long
Thinking
" Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. "
Sophocles
Goes
Words
Fewest
" We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. "
Stephen Vincent Benet
Had
Because
Thought
" Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. "
Plautus
Wisdom
Age
Capacity
" Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. "
William Cowper
Wisdom
Knowledge
Humble
" It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. "
Richard Whately
Repair
Rebuilding
Neglect
" What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. "
Wade Davis
Speak
Wisdom
Silence
" A promise made is a debt unpaid. "
Robert W. Service
Debt
Wisdom
Unpaid
" Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. "
Sara Teasdale
Result
Save
Wisdom
" Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom. "
Buddha
Body
Wisdom
Skin
" Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Like
Economists
Results
" The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. "
Aristotle
Justice
Wisdom
Virtue