In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Richard Whately
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
*I`d say my favorite one is from Walter Lippmann which says "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
I hope this quotes help you in some way :)
Lord Chesterfield
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Richard Whately
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
*I`d say my favorite one is from Walter Lippmann which says "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
I hope this quotes help you in some way :)
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