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Every wise man lives in an observatory.
Sep 30, 2025
Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
Find the journey's end in every step.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Years teach us more than books.
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Wise men speak because they have something to say
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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.
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The years teach much which the days never know.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
All's well that ends well.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.