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LitQuotes Found 11 Wisdom Quotes(Click on items in Author or Source column to see more items from that author or title.)
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| "Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart. . . ." | Charles Dickens | Hard Times |  | | "But sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom." | Elizabeth Gaskell | Wives and Daughters | | | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | | | His knowledge was greater than his wisdom, and his powers were far superior to his character. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Leather Funnel | | | "There is no wisdom like frankness." | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | | | More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | | | It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. | Anthony Trollope | The Small House at Allington | | | "Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!" | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | | | Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | | | "You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been." | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | | | . . . the well of true wit is truth itself, the gathering of the precious drops of right reason, wisdom's lightning; and no soul possessing and dispensing it can justly be a target for the world, however well armed the world confronting her. | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | |
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