Today Quotes
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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.Samuel Smiles
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.Publilius Syrus
Water is the only drink for a wise man.Henry David Thoreau
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.W. C. Fields
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.Henry David Thoreau
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.Voltaire
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.Author Unknown
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.Author Unknown
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.Author Unknown