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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics / 
 



All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.




Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.
André Comte-Sponville / 






Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Augustine of Hippo - De patientia / 
 






A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield / 
 






To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell / 






Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;
Leo Tolstoy / 



Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;




It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 
 






People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 
 



People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?

Image attribution  Background photo by Jennifer Latuperisa-Andresen on Unsplash





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell / 






Wisdom is harmony.
Novalis - Fragments / 
 



Wisdom is harmony.

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Silence is often the truest wisdom.
Pindar - Nemean Odes / 
 






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






It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
Philippe Quinault / 






Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires / 
 






Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus / 






The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 
 






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 - Faust: A Tragedy / 
 






Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 
 






Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Laozi / 






Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
André Gide - Fruits of the Earth / 
 



Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.




There is no justice in putting strength on a level above wisdom.
Xenophanes / 






A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics / 
 






I was allowed free run of the library and I stormed human wisdom.
Jean-Paul Sartre / 






There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 
 






They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius / 






Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
Isocrates / 






Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
A phrase often attributed to Immanuel Kant - Quotation of uncertain origin / 






Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven / 



Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.




Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Forster / 
 






The ability of calm reflection is the beginning of all wisdom, the source of all goodness !
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach / 










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