Quotes about wisdom

"We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before."

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

Aristophanes on wisdom
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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 on wisdom   

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

Aurelius, Marcus on wisdom
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"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool."

Azai, Rabbi Ben on wisdom
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"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."

Bacon, Francis on wisdom
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"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

Bacon, Francis on wisdom
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"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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"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."

Basho, Matsuo on wisdom
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"Wise men still seek Him today."

Bell, Dan on wisdom   

"Action should culminate in wisdom."

Bhagavad Gita on wisdom
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"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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"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 on wisdom
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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]"

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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]"

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"He that walketh with wise men shall be wise."

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"The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]"

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"In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."

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"Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times."

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

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"So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom."

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"The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]"

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

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"Better to get wisdom than gold."

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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]"

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"Some folks are wise and some otherwise."

Billings, Josh on wisdom   

"The price of wisdom is eternal thought."

Birch, Frank on wisdom   

"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 on wisdom   

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

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"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise."

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"The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all."

Boileau, Nicholas on wisdom
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"The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on wisdom   

"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 on wisdom   

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

Bouton, E. S. on wisdom   

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

Brecht, Bertolt on wisdom   

"Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear."

Buddha on wisdom
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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 on wisdom
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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. on wisdom   

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

Buscaglia, Leo on wisdom