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• “The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.” -- George Santayana
  
   American philosopher, essayist. Reason in Religion, Ch. 2 (1945)
  
  
• “A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.” -- Admiral Richard E. Byrd
  
  
• “A man with wisdom is better off than a stupid man with any amount of charms and superstition.” -- Feras Yaghmour
  
  
• “Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” -- Lin Yutang
  
  
• “Information isn't wisdom. Information isn't learning. If information were learning, you could be educated by memorizing the world almanac. If you did that, you wouldn't be educated. You'd be weird.” -- David McCullough
  
  
• “It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.” -- Walter Lippman
  
  
• “It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it, and appropriately act on it.” -- Stephen Covey
  
  
• “Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.” -- Will Durant
  
  
• “Some folks are wise and some otherwise.” -- Josh Billings
  
  
• “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” -- Isaac Asimov
  
   Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
  
  

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