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Wisdom

«Wise it is to comprehend the whole.»
Author: Edward Young (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Wisdom
«Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late»
Author: Felix Frankfurter (Jurist) | About: Wisdom
«Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one»
Author: Diogenes (Founder, Philosopher) | About: Wisdom | Keywords: counselors, distinguishing
«Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.»
Author: John Cheever | About: Wisdom
«Wisdom to be sure is the great conqueror of Fortune, giving precepts in its sanctified pages; but we also judge those happy who have learned in the school of life how to bear its ills and not buck against the yoke»
Author: Juvenal | About: Fortune, Wisdom | Keywords: buck, conqueror, Precepts, to be sure, yoke
«Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.»
«Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | About: Wisdom
«Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.»
«Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.»
«Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.»