 | "Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."
- Abigail Van Buren
, 1978. |
| "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
- Bertrand Russell
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| "One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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| "The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
- George Santayana
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| "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
- H. L. Mencken
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| "Force without wisdom falls of its own weight."
- Horace
, Odes. |
| "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
- Immanuel Kant
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| "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
- James Boswell
, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791. |
| "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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| "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
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