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The price of wisdom is above rubies.
* Bible -- Job 28:18
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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all they getting get understanding.
* Bible -- Proverbs 4:7
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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
* Bertolt Brecht
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
* Cicero
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
* Charles Caleb Colton
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
* Thomas Hobbes
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
* Thomas Jefferson
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
* G. C. Lichtenberg
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
* Walter Lippmann
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I do know of these
That therefore only are reputed wise
For saying nothing.
* William Shakespeare
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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
* William Shakespeare
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To be wise and love
Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
* William Shakespeare
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
* Socrates
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