Monday 19 September 2011

WisDom Quotes and Sayings (6)

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