Wisdom

(60 votes)   Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(60 votes)   Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Titus Maccius Plautus
BC 254-184, Roman Comic Poet

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(60 votes)   Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Robert E. Lee
1807-1870, American Confederate Army Commander

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(60 votes)   Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Sid Taylor

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(59 votes)   That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

John Stuart Mill
1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist

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(59 votes)   Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

R. I. Fitzhenry

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(58 votes)   Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

William Saroyan
1908-1981, American Writer, Novelist,, Playwright

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(58 votes)   What does rasta mean? Righteousness.

Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

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(57 votes)   Go where he will, the wise man is at home.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(57 votes)   He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(57 votes)   No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus
BC 254-184, Roman Comic Poet

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(57 votes)   The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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(56 votes)   It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

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(56 votes)   It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(56 votes)   Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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