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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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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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

Mencken, H. L.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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

Kraus, Karl

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 beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Larson, Doug

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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 are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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

Buddha

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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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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

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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.

Socrates

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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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 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

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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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

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

Marilyn vos Savant

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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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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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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid