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What is all wisdom save a collectio…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings– they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner […]

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Tryon Edwards

Where duty is plain, delay is both …

15 Feb , 2011  

Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety. Great short quote and quotation by: Tryon Edwards , (1809 – 1894)

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T. S. Eliot, The Rock

Where is the wisdom we have lost in…

15 Feb , 2011  

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? Great short quote and quotation by: T. S. Eliot, The Rock , British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 – 1965)

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Madame Necker

Where love and wisdom drink out of …

15 Feb , 2011  

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception. Great short quote and quotation by: Madame Necker ,

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Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"

Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous…

15 Feb , 2011  

Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird. Great short quote and quotation by: Woody Allen, “Without Feathers” , US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 – )

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Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

Wisdom born of experience should te…

15 Feb , 2011  

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force… If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must […]

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Yula Moses

Wisdom is harder to DO than it is t…

15 Feb , 2011  

Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know. Great short quote and quotation by: Yula Moses ,

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Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814

Wisdom is better than wit, and in t…

15 Feb , 2011  

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. Great short quote and quotation by: Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814 , English novelist (1775 – 1817)

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Wisdom does not show itself so much…

15 Feb , 2011  

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. Great short quote and quotation by: Seneca , Roman dramatist, philosopher, & […]

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Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College.

Wisdom comes with winters….

15 Feb , 2011  

Wisdom comes with winters. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College. ,

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David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; …

15 Feb , 2011  

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. Great short quote and quotation by: David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair , US biologist, educator, & ichthyologist (1851 – 1931)

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Bible

Wisdom is the principal thing, ther…

15 Feb , 2011  

Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding. Great short quote and quotation by: Bible, Proverbs, 4:7 ,

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