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The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it. -- Apollonius of Tyana
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. -- Plautus
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by. -- John Bercow
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. -- Sara Teasdale
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. -- Joseph Roux
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application. -- Edwin Louis Cole
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. -- Esther Williams
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom. -- A. R. Rahman
For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. -- Robert South
Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it. -- Timothy Noah
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone. -- Gertrude Jekyll
Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom. -- Marshall Goldsmith
The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk. -- Chidananda Saraswati

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