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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
Samuel Beckett
WriterIrish1906 · 20th century
5.0 · 33 votes · 136 reads
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Miguel de Cervantes
PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century
3.4 · 54 votes · 149 reads
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To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
3.9 · 49 votes · 123 reads
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century
3.4 · 64 votes · 122 reads
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher
PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century
4.3 · 61 votes · 113 reads
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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.
Sir Thomas Browne
AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century
3.2 · 54 votes · 149 reads
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Norman Vincent Peale
AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century
4.5 · 58 votes · 109 reads
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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.
Anonymous
4.4 · 61 votes · 1 reads
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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Montaigne
PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century
4.2 · 63 votes · 98 reads
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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
James Truslow Adams
WriterAmerican1878 · 19th century
3.3 · 27 votes · 145 reads
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century
3.2 · 19 votes · 0 reads
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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 wis
Sir Thomas Browne
AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century
4.9 · 47 votes · 165 reads
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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are cleaver people.
Anonymous
4.9 · 31 votes · 133 reads
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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.
Will Rogers
ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century
3.6 · 44 votes · 110 reads
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean Jacques Rousseau
PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century
4.6 · 44 votes · 97 reads
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Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.
Nelson Mandela
PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century
3.7 · 16 votes · 25 reads
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin Franklin
PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century
3.6 · 41 votes · 190 reads
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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
4.6 · 32 votes · 35 reads
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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
Pierre Beaumarchais
PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century
3.6 · 49 votes · 72 reads
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century
3.6 · 26 votes · 141 reads
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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
PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC
5.0 · 22 votes · 136 reads
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century
4.4 · 24 votes · 33 reads
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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
Montaigne
PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century
5.0 · 43 votes · 49 reads
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
3.4 · 58 votes · 30 reads
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
4.0 · 20 votes · 71 reads
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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Anonymous
3.5 · 63 votes · 158 reads
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William Hazlitt
EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century
3.0 · 32 votes · 17 reads
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
3.8 · 57 votes · 34 reads
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC
4.5 · 19 votes · 42 reads
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Socrates
PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC
4.0 · 58 votes · 22 reads
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Norman Vincent Peale
AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century
4.0 · 17 votes · 96 reads
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius
PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC
3.4 · 5 votes · 111 reads
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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
Anonymous
3.0 · 6 votes · 108 reads
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Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
Anonymous
4.9 · 12 votes · 42 reads
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Pierre Beaumarchais
PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century
4.1 · 35 votes · 91 reads
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Montaigne
PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century
4.7 · 48 votes · 198 reads
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Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.
Anonymous
4.6 · 37 votes · 36 reads
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You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
Anonymous
5.0 · 38 votes · 161 reads
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