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Quotations by Subject: Wisdom (28 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.: Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.: Hugh White (1773 - 1840)
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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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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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.: William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.: Marilyn vos Savant
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