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- A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Here's some words of wisdom sprayed painted on a wall in Berkeley:
- Bush: Read my labia
- There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
- We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
- Author Unknown
- The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
- Author Unknown
- If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
- Author Unknown
- It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
- Samuel Smiles
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