Today Quotes
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.Hermann Hesse
Everyone is wise until he speaks.Irish Proverb
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.Joseph Wood Krutch
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
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.Latin
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.Bible, Proverbs, 4:7
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.Theodore Roosevelt
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.Seneca