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

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.