Random Quotes
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Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.Author Unknown
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.Sir Francis Bacon
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.Miguel De Cervantes
He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.C. C. Colton
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.Norman Douglas
A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.Epictetus
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.Hermann Hesse
Everyone is wise until he speaks.Irish Proverb
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.Joseph Wood Krutch