Quotes for: wisdom

Quotes for: wisdom

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

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

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Silence is often the truest wisdom.
Pindar

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

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

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

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

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

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

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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

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
Isocrates

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

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

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People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?

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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than does folly.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

And wisdom in life is perhaps to ask for anything, why?
Honore de Balzac

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

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

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