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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
George Bernard Shaw
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates."
Henry Thoreau
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
Henry Mencken
"A word to the wise is infuriating."
Hunter S. Thompson
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Knowledge is not wisdom, unless used wisely."
J.D. Anderson
"In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom."
J.R.R. Tolkien
"The wise speak only of what they know."
J.R.R. Tolkien
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
Kahlil Gibran
"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
"The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man."
Marcus Aurelius
"Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
Oscar Wilde
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is a festival only to the wise."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces."
Rudyard Kipling
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Saint Augustine
"Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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