Wisdom Quotes
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.Wisdom
Adams, James Truslow
American Statesman
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Aristophanes
BC 448-380 Greek Comic Poet Satirist
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.
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Asimov, Isaac
1920-1992 Russian-born American Author
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
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Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
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Azai, Rabbi Ben
Israeli Rabbi
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
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.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Basho
Wise men still seek Him today.
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Bell, Dan
American Actor
Action should culminate in wisdom.
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Bhagavad Gita
c BC 400 Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
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.
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Bhagavad Gita
c BC 400 Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
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.
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Bhagavad Gita
c BC 400 Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you stemma 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]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
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]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
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.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Better to get wisdom than gold.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
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Billings, Josh
1815-1885 American Humorist Lecturer
The price of wisdom is eternal thought.
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Birch, Frank
American Actor
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.
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Blake, William
1757-1827 British Poet Painter
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Blake, William
1757-1827 British Poet Painter
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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Blake, William
1757-1827 British Poet Painter
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
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Boileau, Nicholas
1636-1711 French Literary Poet Critic
The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
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Bonaparte, Napoleon
1769-1821 French General Emperor
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.
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Borland, Hal
1900-1978 American Writer
True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
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Bouton, E. S.
Mixing one s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Brecht, Bertolt
1898-1956 German Dramatist Poet
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
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Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
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Buddha
568-488 BC Founder of Buddhism
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.
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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
1803-1873 British Novelist Poet
If I don t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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Buscaglia, Leo
American Expert on Love Lecturer Author
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
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Butler, Samuel
1612-1680 British Poet Satirist
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Cato The Elder
BC 234-149 Roman Statesman Orator
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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Cervantes, Miguel De
1547-1616 Spanish Novelist Dramatist Poet
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
1340-1400 British Poet
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
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Cheever, John
1912-1982 American Author
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
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Clemenceau, Georges
1841-1929 French Statesman
The extreme limit of wisdom --that s what the public calls madness.
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Cocteau, Jean
1889-1963 French Author Filmmaker
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
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Collins, John Churton
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.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
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.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
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.
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Connolly, Cyril
1903-1974 British Critic
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Coolidge, Calvin
1872-1933 Thirtieth President of the USA
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.
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Covey, Stephen R.
American Speaker Trainer Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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.
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Cudworth, Ralph J.
1617-1688 British Theologian Philosopher
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
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Dumas, Alexandre
1802-1870 French Novelist Dramatist
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Eban, Abba
1915 Israeli Politician
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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Elizabeth, Queen
1926 Current Queen of the United Kingdom
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.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
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.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Life is a festival only to the wise.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Epictetus
50-120 Stoic Philosopher
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
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Epictetus
50-120 Stoic Philosopher
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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Euripides
BC 480-406 Greek Tragic Poet
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
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Evangel
Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
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Evans, Bergen
American Author
Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.
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Fitzhenry, R. I.
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.
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Francis of Assisi, St.
1181-1226 Italian Preacher Founder of the Franciscan Orde
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Frankfurter, Felix
1882-1965 Austrian-born American Law Teacher Judge
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
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.
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Freud, Sigmund
1856-1939 Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
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Gabirol, Ibn
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
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Gabirol, Ibn
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
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Galbraith, John Kenneth
1908 American Economist
It is unwise to be too sure of one s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
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Garbutt, Frank
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.
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Gibran, Kahlil
1883-1931 Lebanese Poet Novelist
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Wisdom is found only in truth.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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Goldsmith, Oliver
1728-1774 Anglo-Irish Author Poet Playwright
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
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Goldsmith, Oliver
1728-1774 Anglo-Irish Author Poet Playwright
The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he s completely draped in it. Then he ll stand up and go hey, I m Vine Man.
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Handey, Jack
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
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Hesse, Hermann
1877-1962 German-born Swiss Novelist Poet
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.
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Hesse, Hermann
1877-1962 German-born Swiss Novelist Poet
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
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Hoagland, Edward
1932 American Novelist Essayist
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Hobbes, Thomas
1588-1679 British Philosopher
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.
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
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Hoover, Herbert Clark
1874-1964 American - 31st American President
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
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Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
c55-c130 Roman Satirical Poet
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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Kraus, Karl
1874-1936 Austrian Satirist
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
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.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
It s the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you d preferred to talk.
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Larson, Doug
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
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Lee, Robert E.
1807-1870 American Confederate Army Commander
It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
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L'Estrange, Sir Roger
It s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
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Levenson, Samuel
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
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.
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Luther, Martin
1483-1546 German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
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.
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Machiavelli, Niccolo
1469-1527 Italian Author Statesman
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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Maeterlinck, Maurice
1862-1949 Belgian Author
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.
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Marden, Orison Swett
1850-1924 American Author Founder of Success Magazine
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one s being.
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Marden, Orison Swett
1850-1924 American Author Founder of Success Magazine
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
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Marx, Eleanor
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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Mencken, H. L.
1880-1956 American Editor Author Critic Humorist
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
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Mill, John Stuart
1806-1873 British Philosopher Economist
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
1533-1592 French Philosopher Essayist
We can be knowledgeable with other men s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men s wisdom.
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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
1533-1592 French Philosopher Essayist
Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
1533-1592 French Philosopher Essayist
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
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Noll, Chuck
American Football Coach
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
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Oxenstierna, Count Axel Gustafsson
1583-1654 Swedish Statesman
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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Patrick, John
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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Phaedrus
c1 Macedonian Inventor and Writer
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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Pindar
BC 518-18438 Greek Poet
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
The wisest have the most authority.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
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Plautus, Titus Maccius
BC 254-184 Roman Comic Poet
No man is wise enough by himself.
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Plautus, Titus Maccius
BC 254-184 Roman Comic Poet
By others faults the wise correct their own.
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Proverb
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
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Proverb, African
Sayings of African Origin
The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
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Proverb, Camerounian
Sayings of Camerounian Origin
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month s study of books.
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Proverb, Chinese
Sayings of Chinese Origin
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
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Proverb, Chinese
Sayings of Chinese Origin
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
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Proverb, Chinese
Sayings of Chinese Origin
Wise care keeps what it has gained.
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Proverb, Danish
Sayings of Danish Origin
The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.
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Proverb, German
Sayings of German Origin
Everyone is wise until he speaks.
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Proverb, Irish
Sayings of Irish Origin
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
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Proverb, Latin
Sayings of Latin Origin
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
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Proverb, Spanish
Sayings of Spanish Origin
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
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Proverb, Turkish
Sayings of Turkish Origin
A nation s treasure is its scholars.
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Proverb, Yiddish
Sayings of Yiddish Origin
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
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Quarles, Francis
1592-1644 British Poet
It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.
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Quinault, Philippe
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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Roosevelt, Theodore
1858-1919 Twenty-sixth President of the USA
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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Rousseau, Jean Jacques
1712-1778 Swiss Political Philosopher Educationist Essayist
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.
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Rowland, Helen
1875-1950 American Journalist
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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Saint-Exupery, Antoine De
1900-1944 French Aviator Writer
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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Santayana, George
1863-1952 American Philosopher Poet
Good people are good because they ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
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Saroyan, William
1908-1981 American Writer Novelist Playwright
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
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Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
1759-1805 German Dramatist Poet Historian
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur
1788-1860 German Philosopher
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.
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Seneca
4 BC – 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
To be wise and love exceeds man s might.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
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.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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Smiles, Samuel
1812-1904 Scottish Author
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.
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Smiles, Samuel
1812-1904 Scottish Author
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Smiles, Samuel
1812-1904 Scottish Author
Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.
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Smollett, Tobias G.
1721-1771 Scottish Novelist Surgeon
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
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Socrates
BC 469-399 Greek Philosopher of Athens
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Socrates
BC 469-399 Greek Philosopher of Athens
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.
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Socrates
BC 469-399 Greek Philosopher of Athens
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
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Sophocles
BC 495-406 Greek Tragic Poet
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
1834-1892 British Baptist Preacher
The greatest wisdom is to realize one s lack of it
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Stanislavisky, Konstantin
1863-1968 Russian Actor Theatre director Teacher
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
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Syrus, Publilius
1st Century BC Roman Writer
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
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Talmud, The
BC 500-400 AD Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition
Who is wise? One who learns from all.
Wisdom
Talmud, The
BC 500-400 AD Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
Wisdom
Talmud, The
BC 500-400 AD Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition
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.
Wisdom
Taylor, Sid
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Wisdom
Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn t make sense.
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Thurber, James
1894-1961 American Humorist Illustrator
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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Tolstoy, Count Leo
1828-1910 Russian Novelist Philosopher
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Wisdom
Unknown, Source
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
Wisdom
Unknown, Source
Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.
Wisdom
Unknown, Source
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
Wisdom
Unknown, Source
The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.
Wisdom
Unknown, Source
What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are cleaver people.
Wisdom
Unknown, Source
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
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Unknown, Source
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
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Unknown, Source
Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.
Wisdom
Unknown, Source
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Wisdom
Unknown, Source
Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.
Wisdom
Unknown, Source
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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Voltaire
1694-1778 French Historian Writer
Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
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Ward, William A.
1921
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
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Watson, Thomas J.
18-1956 American Businessman Founder of IBM
Wisdom begins at the end.
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Webster, Daniel
1782-1852 American Lawyer Statesman
Wisdom doesn t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
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Wilson, Woodrow T.
1856-1924 Twenty-eighth President of the USA
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.
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig
1889-1951 Austrian Philosopher
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you ll find many of them are unwise.
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Young, Andrew
1932 Civil Rights Activist Protestant Minister Public Official
If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.
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Zenrin