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But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me; My tendency is to philosophise On most things, from a tyrant to a tree; But still the spouseless virgin Knowledge flies, What are we? and whence come we? what shall be Our ultimate existence? What's our present? Are questions answerless, and yet incessant.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'… I can't fathom my own heart.

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.