“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things”
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“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things”
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook”
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing”
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations”
“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. ”
“Wisdom begins in wonder”
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way”
“What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. ”
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply”
“Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience”
“experience is the only prophecy of wise men”
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions”
“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move”
“The only source of knowledge is experience”
“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action”
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards”
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense ”
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence”
“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon ”