"A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out."
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"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
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"Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."
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"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
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"Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired."
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"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
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"Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you."
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"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."
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"Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive."
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"I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth."
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"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
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"Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom."
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"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
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"The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right."
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"Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being."
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"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."
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"I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention."
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"The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom."
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"There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source."
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"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
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