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Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson 
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
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