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Quotes: Wisdom

A Select Collection of Quotes: Wisdom

By Simran Khurana, About.com Guide

Walter Lippman: Quotes: Wisdom
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

John Ruskin: Quotes: Wisdom
It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

A. C. Carlson: Quotes: Wisdom
It's what we learn after we know it all that counts.

Lao-Tzu: Quotes: Wisdom
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Alfred Lord Tennyson: Quotes: Wisdom
Knowledge comes, but wisdom stays.

Francis Bacon: Quotes: Wisdom
Knowledge is power.

Alvin Toffler: Quotes: Wisdom
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Confucius: Quotes: Wisdom
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Quotes: Wisdom
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Gandhi: Quotes: Wisdom
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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