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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
Michael Caine on wisdom

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.
Benjamin Carson on wisdom

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on wisdom

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis on wisdom

Kindness is wisdom.
Philip James Bailey on wisdom

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
William J. Clinton on wisdom

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dale Turner on wisdom

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux on wisdom

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
Elizabeth Gilbert on wisdom

The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
Pat Robertson on wisdom

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis on wisdom

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino on wisdom

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
Susan Orlean on wisdom

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
Anthony Hopkins on wisdom

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene on wisdom

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
Rene Russo on wisdom

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Zhuang Zi on wisdom

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Leonard Nimoy on wisdom

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi on wisdom

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
George MacDonald on wisdom