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All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas)

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. (Quote by - Phaedrus)

Turn your wounds into wisdom. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. (Quote by - Bible)

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. (Quote by - Mary Wilson Little)

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Through wisdom a house is built and through understanding it is established. (Quote by - Bible)

Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth. (Quote by - Bible)

And Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. (Quote by - Bible)

The doors of wisdom are never shut. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)

Wisdom comes alone through suffering. (Quote by - Aeschylus)

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. (Quote by - Confucius)

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? (Quote by - Bible)

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. (Quote by - Tom Wilson)

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals. (Quote by - Brigitte Bardot)

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything. (Quote by - Rent Coty)

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. (Quote by - Socrates)

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