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22 Wisdom Quotes from the greatest minds

"Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery. Thomas Moore "

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates "

"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Terry Pratchett "

"A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. Pythagoras "

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson "

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Will Rogers "

"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. David Elton Trueblood "

"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. Honore De Balzac "

"He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. Mark Twain "

"Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? Martin Farquhar Tupper "

"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. Leo Tolstoy "

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. 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 "

"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. Kahlil Gibran "

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau "

" To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao Tzu"

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci "

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. Confucius "

"There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool. Diogenes "

"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. Hermann Hesse "

"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. Leo Tolstoy "

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Benjamin Franklin "
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