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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." Aldous Huxley 4.888888888888889 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom." Samuel Taylor Coleridge 4.888888888888889 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Socrates 4.868852459016393 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." George Bernard Shaw 4.857142857142857 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." Baltasar Gracian 4.857142857142857 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." Oscar Wilde 4.842105263157895 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." Socrates 4.818181818181818 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause." T.S. Eliot 4.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom." J.R.R. Tolkien 4.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." Confucius 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 4.7368421052631575 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man." Marcus Aurelius 4.72 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything." Benjamin Franklin 4.705882352941177 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance." Benjamin Franklin 4.6923076923076925 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The wise speak only of what they know." J.R.R. Tolkien 4.678571428571429 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Experts often possess more data than judgment." Colin Powell 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Knowledge is not wisdom, unless used wisely." J.D. Anderson 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." William Shakespeare 4.636363636363637 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot." Albert Einstein 4.636363636363637 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." Baltasar Gracian 4.625 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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