Wisdom Quotes

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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus

Wise, Others, Errors

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Eyes, Books

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

Begins, Ends, Delight

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspired, Earth, Perhaps

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran

Road, Turn, False

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes

Long, Give, Enough

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau

Wise, Once, Worldly

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
Joan Rivers

Good, Wise, Mind

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck

Morning, Experience, Sleep

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson

Talk, Listening, Lifetime

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men, Wise, Ignorant

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

Winning, Everything, Win

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton

Tell, Surprise, Ingenuity

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van Buren

Talk, Less, Listened

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

Nature, Far, Walk

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Elizabeth Kenny

Life, Lion, Sheep

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nature, Good, Money

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Jim Carrey

Dreams, Death, Give

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
John Wooden

Life, Smart, Yourself

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

Patience, Companion

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand

Men, Truth, Seek

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