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- It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
- William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
- Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
- Greek Proverb
- It is the province of knowledge to speak
And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence. - Visions of Gregorian Chants
- To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
- Count Oxenstierna
- Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965), The Rock
- It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
- W. R. Inge
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