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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
- Edmund Burke
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Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.
By others faults the wise correct their own.
Proverb

2.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

3.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Franklin, Benjamin

4.
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

5.
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates

6.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Basho, Matsuo

7.
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
Asimov, Isaac

8.
The wisest have the most authority.
Plato

9.
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
Buddha

10.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

11.
Wise men still seek Him today.
Bell, Dan

12.
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.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

13.
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Buddha

14.
What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

15.
The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.
Proverb, German

16.
Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
Walt Whitman

17.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Brecht, Bertolt

18.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Larson, Doug

19.
Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

20.
Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
Ward, William A.

21.
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
Talmud, The

22.
Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.
Fitzhenry, R. I.

23.
Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

24.
The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]
Bible

25.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Gibran, Kahlil

26.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

27.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
Cheever, John

28.
When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.
Bhagavad Gita

29.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

30.
The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.
Cocteau, Jean

31.
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
Bacon, Francis

32.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace

33.
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Proverb, Chinese

34.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Proverb, Chinese

35.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.
Bible

36.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Rowland, Helen

37.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Mencken, H. L.

38.
There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
Luther, Martin

39.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.
If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.
Zenrin

41.
Action should culminate in wisdom.
Bhagavad Gita

42.
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
Talmud, The

43.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.
The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
Proverb, Camerounian

46.
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus

47.
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
Marx, Eleanor

48.
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
Edmund Burke

49.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.
The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.
Hoffer, Eric


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