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

2.
The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]
Bible

3.
Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

4.
The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
Garbutt, Frank

5.
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
Talmud, The

6.
The price of wisdom is eternal thought.
Birch, Frank

7.
The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.
Proverb, German

8.
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.

9.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.
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

11.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Russell, Bertrand

13.
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Proverb, Turkish

14.
The wisest have the most authority.
Plato

15.
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus

16.
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Buddha

17.
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Buscaglia, Leo

18.
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
Adams, James Truslow

19.
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Gabirol, Ibn

20.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates

21.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius

22.
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

23.
Wise care keeps what it has gained.
Proverb, Danish

24.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander

25.
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

26.
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
Boileau, Nicholas

28.
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

29.
Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.
Smollett, Tobias G.

30.
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
Lee, Robert E.

31.
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

32.
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

33.
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Quarles, Francis

34.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Brecht, Bertolt

35.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Clemenceau, Georges

36.
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
Carlyle, Thomas

37.
The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it
Stanislavisky, Konstantin

39.
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

40.
It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.
Quinault, Philippe

41.
Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

42.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.
Marden, Orison Swett

43.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust

44.
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
Cullen Hightower

45.
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Proverb, Chinese

46.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Saroyan, William

47.
The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.
Cocteau, Jean

48.
Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]
Bible

49.
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
Marx, Eleanor

50.
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


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