WISDOM QUOTES VIII

quotations about wisdom

Wisdom teaches us to live content upon a bone gnawed bare.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit;
And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

SOPHOCLES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.

EDWARD YOUNG

The Complaint; Or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

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A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

EIJI YOSHIKAWA

Taiko

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If you desire to be wiser yet, think yourself not yet wise.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

JAMES ALLEN

Above Life's Turmoil

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Be wise before the storm.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Unless, we value wisdom, we are bound to suffer many things that we were never meant to suffer.

KILTON MOYO

"Teaching our children wisdom", NewsDay, March 30, 2017


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

WILLIAM JAMES

Principles of Psychology

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The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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Like gold in the hands of a savage are the sayings of wisdom in the mouth of a fool.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Knowing how to make a banana pudding is knowledge, but wisdom is knowing if others appreciate your efforts.

LARRY EFIRD

"Wisdom, knowledge and banana pudding", Salisbury Post, January 9, 2016


According to the Oxford English Dictionary, wisdom is the "Capacity of judging rightly in matters relating to life and conduct" and "sound judgement". My goodness, think if wisdom were a modern concept, regularly practiced, how much less shocking news we would have every day! If only celebrities didn't make such silly displays of themselves on late-night television shows; if tourists didn't insist on taking naked selfies on sacred mountains; if Justin Bieber could only behave like a sensible young man; if politicians were once again filled with serious integrity. Then our lives would not be spinning out of control with nonsense. What if Donald Trump had the wisdom to keep his mouth shut? What if scientists realize that just because they can create robot soldiers doesn't mean they should?

DOROTHY TURCOTTE

"The world in 2016 could use a little more wisdom", Niagara This Week, January 12, 2016


Wisdom is a palace, of which only the vestibule has yet been entered.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

WILLIAM BLAKE

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

preface, The Snow-Image

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