Wisdom Quotes
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He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
Bias of Priene -
Being a student meant always looking up to someone wiser and always measuring yourself against that wisdom and knowledge.
Alice Steinbach
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Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.
Confucius -
It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.
P. D. James -
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.
Wilfred Trotter -
Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.
George Mackay Brown -
Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.
Publilius Syrus
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
Arthur Rimbaud -
Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.
Hermann Hesse -
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
William James -
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner -
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
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Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups. We also show how group polarization sets the stage for risky and even dangerous decisions to be made. How we navigate between false agreement and polarization is the kind of mastery that collective wisdom represents.
Alan Briskin -
One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
Socrates -
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
Mary Kay Ash -
The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.
Johannes Kepler -
Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.
C. S. Lewis -
Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.
Anthony Marais
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Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.
Cat Cora -
We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.
Jimmy Carter -
It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes