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A Select Collection of Wise Quotations

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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Wise Quotations
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learned a very, very small part of what it can do.

Benjamin Franklin: Wise Quotations
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Henri Bergson: Wise Quotations
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

W. M. L. Jay: Wise Quotations
Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

Oliver Wendell Holmes: Wise Quotations
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Miguel de Cervantes: Wise Quotations
Time ripens all things, no man is born wise.

Marilyn vos Savant: Wise Quotations
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Bertrand Russell: Wise Quotations
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

William Blake: Wise Quotations
To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower... hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour...

Charles Caleb Colton: Wise Quotations
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

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