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Quotes about wisdom
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. (Brolin. Josh )
Everyone is wise until he speaks. (Brolin. Josh )
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream. (Brolin. Josh )
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones. (Brolin. Josh )
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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one. (Brolin. Josh )
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains. (Brolin. Josh )
It is not wise to be wiser than necessary. (Brolin. Josh )
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. (Brolin. Josh )
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? (Brolin. Josh )
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. (Brolin. Josh )
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Brolin. Josh )
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use. (Brolin. Josh )
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. (Brolin. Josh )
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. (Brolin. Josh )
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. (Brolin. Josh )
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. (Brolin. Josh )
So wise so young, they say, do never live long. (Brolin. Josh )
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. (Brolin. Josh )
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. (Brolin. Josh )
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. (Brolin. Josh )
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. (Brolin. Josh )
Some men are wise, and some are otherwise. (Brolin. Josh )
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms. (Brolin. Josh )
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. (Brolin. Josh )
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know. (Brolin. Josh )
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