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Words of Wisdom Quotes

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

George Bernard Shaw

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Thomas Jefferson

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

William Hazlitt

Wisdom Quotes About Life

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Wharton

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Norman Douglas

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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Robert Kennedy

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Walter Benjamin

Funny Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Randy Forbes

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Julia Louis Dreyfus

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

George Byron

It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.

Brady Anderson

More Wisdom Quotes

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

William Shakespeare

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

William Hazlitt

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

William Hazlitt

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Lord Chesterfield

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Honore de Balzac

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Baltasar Gracian

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

William Hazlitt

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Lord Chesterfield

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

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