Quotes about wisdom, page 3

Wisdom and Fact

Propaganda painter
No Saint was S T Gill

Knowing that in England
Wisdom was not bliss
Wise man down in Adelaide
Thought he could alter this.

He packed his pics
With doctored bliss
That lured folks to Australia.
His bliss they found there lacking.
With wisdom still in tact
They sent the painter packing-
To goldfields, Melbourne, Sydney-this
Wise con-man died in failure:
Wiser knowing though for sure
That wisdom can't be bliss
When wisdom's faced with fact.

poem by Douglas Scotney
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

quote by Diogenes of Sinope
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Wisdom

This worlds wisdom of the wise
is foolishness in disguise.
But the Wisdom in God's Word
is the greatest to be heard.

poem by Royston
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Wisdom is not knowledge but thriving.

aphorism by Scott F. Parker
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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

classic quote by H.G. Wells
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

classic quote by Immanuel Kant
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

quote by Horace
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

quote by Charles Dickens
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Wisely Love The Wise

The wise love wisely.

It’s said, that when the truly wise
surface from their sleep,
they see nought but heavenly blue
in which the world then gently, slowly shapes itself
as if this whole created world were but
a single act of love; and within that love,
their love is wisdom, knowledge, law;
as they emerge from their wise sleep,
this is what they are.

The wise love wisely; when they look at you,
(you who maybe meet them for
the first time; offer them perhaps
a flower from too hot a hand,
a fruit, a handkerchief…
or meet them by some heavenly accident,
they, like a comet through your life)

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poem by Michael Shepherd
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