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Wisdom

«The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure»
Author: Gregory Nunn | About: Wisdom | Keywords: considers, fallacies, fallacy, obscure
«The highest form of wisdom is kindness»
«The fool wanders, a wise man travels.»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Travel, Wisdom | Keywords: The Fool, travels, wanders
«The fool wonders, the wise man asks.»
«The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.»
«The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.»
Author: William Faulkner (Novelist, Writer) | About: Dreams, Wisdom | Keywords: seeking, The Dream
«The doors of wisdom are never shut.»
«The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.»
«The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.»
Author: Proverb | About: Heart, Lies, Wisdom | Keywords: limpid
«The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.»