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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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✓Similar Perspectives

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

— Julian Casablancas

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

— Paul Ricoeur

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

— Orison Swett Marden

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

— David Starr Jordan

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

— Michael Leunig

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

— Buddha

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

— George Santayana

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