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Acquiring wisdom6 quotes
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers. — Langston Hughes · 1921We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. — Marcel Proust · 1919Wisdom is not the purchase of a day. — Thomas Paine · 1776We live and learn, but not the wiser grow. — John Pomfret · 1700Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed. — Edward Young · 1726The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made;
Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old; both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new. — Edmund Waller · 1686Wisdom2 quotes
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. — Marcel Proust · 1919Wisdom is not the purchase of a day. — Thomas Paine · 1776Effects of time1 quote
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made;
Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old; both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new. — Edmund Waller · 1686Life experience1 quote
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers. — Langston Hughes · 1921Life lessons1 quote
We live and learn, but not the wiser grow. — John Pomfret · 1700Personal growth1 quote
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made;
Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old; both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new. — Edmund Waller · 1686River1 quote
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers. — Langston Hughes · 1921School of hard knocks1 quote
We live and learn, but not the wiser grow. — John Pomfret · 1700