Quotes on Wisdom and Knowledge

Knowledge is love and light and vision
~Helen Keller
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
~William Shakespeare
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If the human brain were so simple we could understand it, then we would be so simple that we couldn’t.
~Emerson M. Pugh
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
~George Bernard Shaw
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The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away all his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another. . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in this world.
~Leonard Berstein
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What if the hokey pokey really is what it’s all about?
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Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
~Baltasar Gracian
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Wisest is he who knows he does not know
~Old Eastern Saying
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The role of the writer is not to say what we all can say,
but what we are unable to say.
~Anais Nin
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
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You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
~Arthur Polotnik
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned. . .
~Paul Valery
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When a student is ready, the teacher will appear
~Chinese Proverb
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Why use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice?
~William Safaire
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A poet is someone who walks around in a thunderstorm waiting to get hit by lightning
~Randall Jarrell
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Language is almost a kind of paradox. It is our chief form of communication, yet so many times it is inadequate to express our feelings.
~Forest Causby
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You may not see the forest because of all the trees.
~Niedenzve
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Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
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For 1,500 years the earth was the center of the solar system simply because Claudius Ptolemy said so. A week before Kitty Hawk, a New York science editor proved that heavier-than-air-flight was impossible. Experts at first said James Joyce couldn’t write, Picasso couldn’t paint, and Elvis couldn’t sing. What do they say about you?
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