#wisdo

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#mistakes #paradox #timidity #wisdom #wisdom

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#epigram #tabloid-journalism #wisdom #wisdom

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. ↗

— Voltaire

#self-knowledge #wisdom #wisdom

Wise? No, I simply learned to think. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. ↗

— Mark Twain

#books #libraries #wisdom #wisdom

Never laugh at live dragons. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#wisdom #wisdom

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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I'm not young enough to know everything. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens ↗