Intellect...Intelligence...WISDOM
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0572
“In seeking wisdom, the first stage is silence, the second listening, the third remembrance, the fourth practicing, the fifth teaching.” — Solomon ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol
WISDOM, Knowledge, Communication
0573 P
“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.”
— Confucius
WISDOM, Thought, Innovation, Experience
0574
“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.” — Norman Cousins
WISDOM, Planning, Vision, Decision Making
0575
“Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.” — Theodore Roosevelt
WISDOM, Personal Management, Chance
0576 H
“We do not know more about mankind than ancient philosophers did, although we have more
details.” — Eugene Weber
WISDOM, Knowledge, Perception, Sciences, Change
0577
“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.” — William Cowper
WISDOM, Knowledge, Humility, Ego
0578
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” — Alfred Lloyd Tennyson
WISDOM, Knowledge
0579
“We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.”
— Michel de Montaigne
WISDOM, Knowledge
0580
“Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.” — William Cowper
WISDOM, Knowledge, Thought
0581 P
“Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.” — Publilius Syrus
WISDOM, Experience, Age, Perception
0582
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from the wise.” — Marcus the Elder Cato
WISDOM, Knowledge, Ignorance
0583 A
“Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
WISDOM, Health & Fitness
0584 CH
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old
man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” — Mark Twain
WISDOM, Family & Friends, Age, Ignorance, Perception
0585
“What a man knows at 50 which he didn’t know at 20 is, for the most part, incommunicable.” — Adlai E. Stevenson
WISDOM, Age, Knowledge
0586
“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.”
— John Churton Collins
WISDOM, Communication
0587 H
“Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that
he is well supplied with it.” — Rene Descartes
WISDOM, Perception, Self-Confidence, Ego
0588
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
WISDOM, Judgment
0589
“The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.” — Dean William Ralph Inge
WISDOM, Judgment
0590 A
“Common sense is the wick of the candle.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
WISDOM, Vision
0591
“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.” — Sophocles
WISDOM, Communication
0592
“The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.”
— I Ching
WISDOM, Character
0593
“The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.” — Nagarjuna
WISDOM, Arts
0594
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
WISDOM, Experience
0595
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” — Sir Winston Churchill
WISDOM, Knowledge, Arts
0596 A
“When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own,
and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
WISDOM, Knowledge, Arts
0597
“A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.” — Thomas Love Peacock
WISDOM, Arts
0598
“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.” — Samuel Johnson
WISDOM, Arts
WISDOM Cross-References
Wealth—10, 35, 37 • Motivation—88 •
Optimism—127 • Planning—162 • Prudence—209, 225 •
Happiness—245, 248 • Errors—312 • Effectiveness—459 •
Potential—497 • Ignorance—504, 511, 513 • Knowledge—520, 526, 530, 542, 551, 559, 571 •
Perception—607, 614 • Thought—636-637 • Chance—664, 666-667 •
Judgment—670, 673 • Originality—716, 723 • Innovation—735, 745-746 •
Love—761 • Honesty—783 • Hate—854 •
Ego—913 • God—985, 996-997 • Arts—1067-1068, 1070 •
Authority—1110 • War & Peace—1330 • Communication—1385, 1399 •
Age—1432, 1439 • Experience—1460, 1463-1464
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