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«Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson | About: Knowledge, Wisdom | Keywords: lingered, lingers
«A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.»
«The song is ended / But the melody lingers on.»
Author: Irving Berlin (Composer) | About: Songs | Keywords: ended, lingers, melody
«The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.»
«Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.»
«Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree»
«I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.»