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Wisdom Quotes

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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky

A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Sophocles

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins

Kindness is wisdom.
Philip James Bailey

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
Tina Turner

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Bodhidharma

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
William Hazlitt

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Alfred North Whitehead

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Alfred North Whitehead

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