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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford on wisdom

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates on wisdom

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
Arthur Conan Doyle on wisdom

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy on wisdom

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

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin on wisdom

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato on wisdom

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin on wisdom

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James on wisdom

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on wisdom

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey on wisdom

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus on wisdom

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on wisdom

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost on wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin on wisdom

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau on wisdom

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

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran on wisdom

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes on wisdom

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