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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.”

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Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.”

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Author:William James

“Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.”

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Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.”

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Author:Gustave Flaubert

“There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.”

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Author:Peter Brodie

“Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.”

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Book:A Heap o' Living'

Source: A Heap o' Living'

“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

“There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”

“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”

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Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.”

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Book:The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments

Source: The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”

“We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.”

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Author:William Cowper

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.”

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Author:Peter Ritchie Calder

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”

Source: The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Preface. Formula fidei de ss. Trinitate. Nightly prayer. Notes on the book of common prayer; Hooker; Field; Donne; Henry More; Heinrichs; Hacket; Jeremy Taylor; The pilgrim's progress; John Smith. Letter to a godchild

“Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.”

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Author:Doug Larson

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.”