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- He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
- Mary Howitt
- Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
- Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
- A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
- I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
- Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
- Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim
Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame,
Obtained with labor, for mankind employed,
And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. - Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
- In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
- It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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