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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Woody Allen (1935 - ), My Speech to the Graduates
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
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John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
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Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
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Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
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Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
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Cullen Hightower
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That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929
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