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“I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.”
“The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”
“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
“Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.”
“Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.”
“I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.”
“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.”
“Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you. ”
“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.”
“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”
“Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.”
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
“Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.”
“Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
“There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.”
“Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.”
“It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.”
“We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.”
“My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
