Quotes and sayings about tag  wisdom

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

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Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

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People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.

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Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

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Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

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I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

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

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The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

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