Words Of Wisdom Quotes with Shareable Pictures
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Wishing you wisdom in all things, every day!
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.
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Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your Creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
