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Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps, At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity, Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill, Where no ill seems.
- quote by John Milton
'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.
- quote by Lord Alfred Tennyson
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
- quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
To realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
- quote by Bertrand Russell
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.
- quote by Roger Ascham
To that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety.
- quote by William Shakespeare
True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come.
- quote by Terence
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
- quote by Seneca
Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
- quote by William Shakespeare
What in me is dark, Illumine, what is low, raise and support.
- quote by John Milton