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Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, Camerounian

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Talmud, The

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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

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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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

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

Noll, Chuck

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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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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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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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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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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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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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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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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

Quintilian

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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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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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Bible

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

Bible

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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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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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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

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