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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens1812–1870
- Love
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892Often credited to Benjamin Franklin
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon1561–1626
The wise speak only of what they know.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
- Life & Death
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.
Cicero107–43 BC
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658
- Courage
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Colin Powell1937–2021
- Education
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Essays
Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834“Hacket’s Life of Lord Keeper Williams”, notes published in The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 3 (1838), ed. Henry Nelson Coleridge, p. 186
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658
- Work
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973The Two Towers, Háma