A single conversation with a
wise man is better than ten years of study.
Chinese Proverb
"The older I grow the more I distrust
the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover
it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or
spare us." Marcel
Proust
Wise men learn more from fools
than fools from the wise
Cato, Roman censor
"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are
mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little
by little to the truth." Jules Verne
"It is more easy
to be wise for others than for ourselves."
La Rochefoucauld
So teach us to
number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom
Psalm 90:12
"He who has a why to live can bear almost
any how."
Fredrich Nietzsche
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself
is Enlightenment."
Lao Tzu
"They that can give up
essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin
Franklin
"Today's mighty oak is just
yesterday's nut, that held its ground." - unknown
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