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Wisdom

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

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

Buddha

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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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.

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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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

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

Bible

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

24.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Zenrin

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

Bible

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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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