Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.


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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOPHOCLES
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GORDON B. HINCKLEY
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JENNIFER BOSWORTH
There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
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HASSE JERNER
Many people who appear to be wolves are actually sheep, but many pretend to be sheep but they actual...
JOSEPH BOAZ
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock
RUSSIAN PROVERB
We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.
RAY BRADBURY
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
JOSH BILLINGS
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JACK KEVORKIAN
A lone wolf sees the wisdom in guarding the sheep and hunting their predators.
T.F. HODGE
The rich are rich in beliefs,but the poor are rich with unbelief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
New Zealand is a beautiful country. But there are more sheep and cows than people.
ALLAN TIBBY
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; ...
JOHN SELDEN
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
JOSH BILLINGS
And Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
BIBLE
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KING SOLOMON
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KING SOLOMON
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M.H. RAKIB
Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.
JOHN MUIR
People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.
JESS C. SCOTT
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom
SIR FRANCIS BACON
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
FRANCIS BACON
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES
Wisdom and understanding will not always make one rich but it will make them a pillar of society.
TROY J. GAINEY
Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
WILLIAM COWPER
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RACHEL CAINE
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DEREK RYDALL
You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different peop...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
A leader, without wisdom, is dangerous. A wise person, without leadership, is useless. But if they w...
CHARBEL TADROS
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
IMMANUEL KANT
Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.
CONFUCIUS
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
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SUNDAY ADELAJA
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DRAGOS BRATASANU
Knowledge is that which is acquired by learning. Wisdom is knowing what to do with it?
UNKNOWN
If thou hast wit & learning, add to it Wisdom and Modesty.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Most people like to be rich, but they don’t know that the rich people are the unhappy bunch. Alway...
MIRCEA POPISTER
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SUGATA MITRA
Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.
SWAMI SIVANANDA
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
FABRICE LUCHINI
The rich is not fit to rule, unless he is also rich in soul, in wisdom.
MARIANA FULGER
The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hat...
TOM ROBBINS
Learning how to cut trees down is intelligence; learning how to grow them is wisdom.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Abundance is about being rich with or without money.
SUZE ORMAN
But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming...
BIBLE
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MARK TWAIN
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
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EVELYN WAUGH
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the ri...
EVELYN WAUGH
And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped hi...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON
And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped hi...
LORD BYRON
If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.
OLD RHYME
Knowledge is learning about the world outside us; wisdom is learning about the world within us.
JIM GENOVESE
Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindne...
AUSTIN FARRAR
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AUSTIN FARRAR
Rich people are often thought of as being dishonest if they were born without much money, and lazy i...
VIKRANT PARSAI
For the whole of life consists of nothing but contradictions. The rich are the poor in spirit; the m...
AUGUST STRINDBERG
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
People are realizing that learning is proportional to interaction and engagement with the subject.
DIANA OBLINGER
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IAIN PEARS
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
CONFUCIUS
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
CONFUCIUS
Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
CONFUCIUS
A lot of people are doing it now without needing a lot of barn space. They can raise them on pasture...
JEFF MCCUTCHEON
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
COCO CHANEL
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
COCO CHANEL
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
COCO GABRIELLE CHANEL
We are rich in hearts, but poor with love.
ANTHONY LICCIONE
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
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NERISSA IRVING
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BRENDA LEWIS
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MARK B. COHEN
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Without learning, without eyes
LITHUANIAN PROVERB
Once Arden said, "Why is it that one sheep is called a sheep and multiple sheep are also called shee...
RILEY CARNEY
The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter...
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK
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MICHAEL CAINE
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
Lost sheep are scattered because the people who are supposed to shepherd them are not aware
SUNDAY ADELAJA
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
LIZ CARPENTER
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CLIFFORD HOPKINS
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.
ILONA ANDREWS
A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten thousands are devoured by men
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which always herd together
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Sheep sheep are adorable.
Human sheep, not so much.
Think for yourself, for flock’s sake...
SCOTT STABILE
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MARCO OSCAR OZ
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CATHERINE LACEY
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo...
EDMUND BURKE
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EDMUND BURKE
Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.
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