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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron on wisdom

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Arthur Conan Doyle on wisdom

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton on wisdom

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather on wisdom

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on wisdom

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon on wisdom

Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on wisdom

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on wisdom

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes on wisdom

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell on wisdom

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

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William James on wisdom

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov on wisdom

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus on wisdom

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake on wisdom

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann on wisdom

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay on wisdom

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
Ron White on wisdom

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin on wisdom

Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin Disraeli on wisdom