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Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Cato The Elder

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

Robbie Gass

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Talmud, The

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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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

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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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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

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

Bouton, E. S.

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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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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth