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Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom Quotes

1. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates

2. 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. - Confucius

3. The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. - Benjamin Disraeli

4. 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. - Khalil Gibran

5. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts 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. - Calvin Coolidge

6. It is impossible to love and to be wise. - Francis Bacon

7. Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey

8. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

9. Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. - Thomas J. Watson

10. Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt

11. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

12. Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

13. Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. - Lao Tzu

14. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. - George Bernard Shaw

15. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

16. Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. - Aesop

17. One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go. - Jane Fonda

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

19. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. - Benjamin Franklin

20. The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

21. The doors of wisdom are never shut. - Benjamin Franklin

22. Wisdom is a sacred communion. - Victor Hugo

23. Wise men make more opportunities than they find. - Francis Bacon

24. We are wiser than we know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

25. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

26. Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. - Bob Marley

27. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov

28. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant

29. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T. S. Eliot

30. The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. - William Blake

31. Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. - William Wordsworth

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

33. Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom. - Amitabh Bachchan

34. All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas

35. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. - Samuel Johnson

36. Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. - Sam Walton

37. In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! - Homer

38. The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. - Aristotle

39. I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. - John Keats

40. The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

41. After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork. - James Prescott Joule

42. Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her. - Maria Montessori.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.