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Wisdom
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.
Best Quotes about Wisdom
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Russell, Bertrand
The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
Garbutt, Frank
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
Hoagland, Edward
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Clemenceau, Georges
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Quarles, Francis
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Wise men still seek Him today.
Bell, Dan
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
Talmud, The
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
No man is wise enough by himself.
Titus Maccius Plautus
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Aurelius, Marcus
Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.
Bible
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
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
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Saroyan, William
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Pindar
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Twain, Mark
Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
Ward, William A.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Basho, Matsuo
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Ziggy
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Levenson, Samuel
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Plautus, Titus Maccius
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
By others faults the wise correct their own.
Proverb
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Franklin, Benjamin
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
Marx, Eleanor
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
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Collins, John Churton
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
Plato
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
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.
Bible
Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Blake, William
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
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
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Mencken, H. L.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]
Bible
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Santayana, George
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.
I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
Hesse, Hermann
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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