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Wisdom

«It is easy to be a pot in a world full of kettles.»
Author: David Severy | About: Wisdom
«In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!»
Author: Homer | About: Beauty, Wisdom, Youth
«It is a right and duty of the wise ones to purify the strong by teaching them their duties and to strengthen the weak by teaching them their rights.»
«It is neither wise nor brave to question God. It is the folly of a prideful heart»
«It may come as a severe shock if you haven?t given much thought to this subject before?but our precious, cast-in-stone, ?objective? beliefs are often totally in contrast to any reality. Or, more accurately, they are our perception of reality, rather than reality itself.»
«Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding? (Job 12:12)»
Author: Bible | About: Wisdom | Keywords: not long
«It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral»
«It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere | About: Speech, Wisdom
«In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.»
«In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice»