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| ==Quotations about wisdom== | | ==Quotations about wisdom== |
− | "Wise men say nothing in dangerous times." ― [[Aesop]] | + | *"Wise men say nothing in dangerous times." ― [[Aesop]] |
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− | "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." ― [[Mark Twain]] | + | *"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." ― [[Mark Twain]] |
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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]] | + | *"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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− | "[[Patience]] is the companion of wisdom." ― [[Augustine of Hippo|St. Augustine]] | + | *"[[Patience]] is the companion of wisdom." ― [[Augustine of Hippo|St. Augustine]] |
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− | "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." ― [[Plato]] | + | *"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." ― [[Plato]] |
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− | "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." ― [[Alfred Lord Tennyson]] | + | *"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." ― [[Alfred Lord Tennyson]] |
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− | "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." ― [[Walter Lippmann]] | + | *"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." ― [[Walter Lippmann]] |
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| + | *[[Knowledge]] can be had by [[education]], but [[wisdom]], which is indispensable to true [[culture]], can be secured only through [[experience]].[http://urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper81.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper81.html&line=148#mfs] |
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| ==See also== | | ==See also== |