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Of
all parts of wisdom the practice in the best.
- John Tillotson
The
aim of education should be rather to teach us how to
think, than what to think.
- James Beattie
The
words of the wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry
of him that ruleth among fools.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyth
much good.
- Ecclesiastes 7:12
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages
may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Knowledge
is proud that he has learned so much:
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
- William Cowper
The
intellect of the wise is like glass: It admits the light of
heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare
We
judge a man's wisdom by his hopes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A
wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man
of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels.
- Proverbs 1:5
Ask
counsel of both times--of the ancient time what is best, and
of the latter time what is fittest.
- Francis Bacon
It
is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as
his knowledge.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Some
people will never learn anything, for this reason, because
they understand everything too soon.
- Alexander Pope
That
which becomes the height of absurdity in one generation often
becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
- John Suart Mill
The
fool wanders, the wise man travels.
- Thomas Fuller
The
man who does not read good books has no advantage over the
man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
Knowledge
is proud that he has learned so much, wisdom is humble that
he knows no more.
- William Cowper
How
prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
- Horace
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