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Wisdom

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Buscaglia, Leo

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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

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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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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

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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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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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

Ward, William A.

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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

Aristophanes

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

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

James Boswell

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Cullen Hightower

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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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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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

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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

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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 is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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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