Wisdom

(64 votes)   Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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(64 votes)   Look into the world, and let it stare back at you.

David McBride

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(64 votes)   The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

The Talmud
BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition

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(64 votes)   Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(63 votes)   Never worry about the world ending when it its already tomorrow in Australia

Kitts

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(63 votes)   This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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(62 votes)   He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge--who knows who has written and where it is to be found.

Archibald Hodge

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(62 votes)   Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Ralph J. Cudworth
1617-1688, British Theologian, Philosopher

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(62 votes)   Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

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(61 votes)   The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

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(61 votes)   You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Mahfouz Naguib

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(60 votes)   And when the Sun eventually rises will we See what we expected see, or will the life of night consumed our days?

Carl Stoynoff
poet/philosopher

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(60 votes)   Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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(60 votes)   The human mind might be sewed, but is always tore.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(60 votes)   The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Nicholas Boileau
1636-1711, French Literary Poet, Critic

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