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Wisdom

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bible

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.

Adams, James Truslow

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

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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

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

Bible

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Noll, Chuck

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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