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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Famous quotes on wisdom and knowledge


"Life is a gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom."
~ Greek Adage

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
~ Sidonie Gabrielle

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
~ Unknown

"In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer."
~ Oscar Wilde

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it"
~ Albert Einstein

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
~ Sandra Carey

"I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received"
~ Antonio Porchia

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew."
~ Herb Caen

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
~ Francis Bacon

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Famous exhausted quotes and sayings collection

“When you’ve exhausted all possibilities, remember this—you haven’t.”
~ Robert H. Schuller

“He who talks more is sooner exhausted”
~ Lao Tzu

“The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.”
~ Mia Hamm

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

“It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work in our own way.”
~ Oswald Chambers

“The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.”
~ Oscar Wilde

“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted”
~ Arthur Miller

"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."
~ Abba Eban

"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."
~ Albert Camus

"Time extracts various values from a painter`s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."
~ Henri Matisse