Quotes and sayings about tag  wisdom

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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Umberto Eco

...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

Victor Hugo

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Viggo Mortensen

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Voltaire

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Wallace Stegner

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wallace Stegner

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

Walt Whitman

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

Wendelin Van Draanen

He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroy;But he who kisses the joy as it fliesLives in eternity's sun rise.

William Blake

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

William James

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

William Jordan

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

William Shakespeare

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