#wisdom

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ↗

— Josh Billings

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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. ↗

— Josh Billings

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

— Josh Billings

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

— Josh Billings

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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. ↗

— John Denham

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Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

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

— William Blake

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