Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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Wisdom is everlasting; early or late we apprehend her still the same.
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For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.
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Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
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He who has once been very foolish will at no other time be very wise. [Fr., Qui aura este une fois bien fol ne sera nulle aultre fois bien sage.]
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We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.
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Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
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No one is wise at all times. [Lat., Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit.]
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No man is wise enough by himself. [Lat., Nemo solus satis sapit.]
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]
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Wisdom alone is a science of other sciences and of itself.
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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.
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When swelling buds their od'rous foliage shed, And gently harden into fruit, the wise Spare not the little offsprings, if they grow Redundant.
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In strictness of language there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom; wisdom always supposing action, and action directed by it.
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Look about, my son, and see how little wisdom it takes to govern the world.
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