Favorite Quotations ~  Wisdom, 4 Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts

"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight." ~ Horace

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There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness. ~ Herman Melville

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

He is not wise that is not wise for himself. ~ English Proverb

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning. ~ Bergen Evans

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~ William Shakespeare, As You Like It

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. ~ Dean W. Inge

Things have their seasons, and even certain kinds of eminence go in and out of style. But wisdom has an advantage: she is eternal. ~ Baltasar Gracián

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ~ Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Divine and Moral

Wisdom is the daughter of experience. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

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