Wisdom Quotes II

"Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.'

{LEONID ANDREYEV},

"There's little comfort in the wise."

{RUPERT BROOKE}

"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."

{WILLIAM COWPER}

"Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another."

{EDMUND BURKE}

"It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.

{PHILIP MOELLER}

"Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful."

{NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI}

 

"Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving."

{JOHN FLETCHER}

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

{JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU}

"wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."

{DAVID HUME}

"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}

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

{WILLIAM BLAKE}

 "Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread."

{AUSTIN O'MALLEY}

 

"The road to true wisdom has seldom been spanned by mortals."

{EDWARD COUNSEL}

"Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom."

{DAN BROWN}

"Wisdom comes only through suffering."

{AESCHYLUS}

"The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew."

{JOHN MILTON},

Man's highest blessedness,

In wisdom chiefly stands;

And in the things that touch upon the Gods,

'Tish best in word or deed

To shun unholy pride;

Great words of boasting bring great punishments,

And so to grey-haired age

Teach wisdom at the last."

{SOPHOCLES},

 

"You may not have very much sense. But if you have enough to keep your mouth shut and look wise, it will not be long before you acquire a wide reputation as a fountain of Wisdom."

{ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES}

 

"Justice without wisdom is impossible."

{JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE}

"The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave."

{JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY}

"The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind."

{JOHN GODFREY SAXE}

"The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

{IVAN PANIN}

 

"If we drink from the fountain of wisdom, We thirst for its waters e'er more."

{ARDELIA COTTON BARTON}

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