Wisdom And Wise Quotations

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“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin

“You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.”
– Denis Waitley

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.”
– Doug Larson

“Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.”
– Doug Larson

“He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.”
– Edgar R. Fiedler

“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.”
– Elizabeth Kenny

“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
– Epictetus

“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
– Francis Bacon

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
– Francis Bacon

“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.”
– Francis Bacon

“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
– George S. Patton

“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
– George Santayana

“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
– H. L. Mencken

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
– Henry Ford

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”
– Herb Caen

“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
– Hermann Hesse

“Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.”
– Horace

“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”
– Horace

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