„The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.The houses are all gone under the sea.The dancers are all gone under the hill.“

— T.S. Eliot

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„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
„The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.“
— Jane Austen
„Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.“
— Albert Einstein
„The wisdom to quit is all we have left.“
— Charles Bukowski