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Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Marilyn vos Savant

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Larson, Doug

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.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

Coolidge, Calvin

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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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 ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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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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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

27.

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

Bible

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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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

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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 testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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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

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.