#wisdom

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ↗

— Josh Billings

#awake #everywhere #learning #libraries #sleeps

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. ↗

— Josh Billings

#learning #made #never #wisdom

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. ↗

— Edgar R. Fiedler

#ball #crystal #crystal ball #eat #glass

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. ↗

— William Blake

#excess #leads #palace #road

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. ↗

— William Blake

#folly #hours #measure #measured #wisdom

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. ↗

— William Blake

#buy #children #dance #experience #hath

We can't command our love, but we can our actions. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#actions #command #love #our #our love

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#sit #weigh #wisdom

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#man #me #montana #ranch #spending

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#ignorance #wisdom