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






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



All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.




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?

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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 / 






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






Wisdom is harmony.
Novalis - Fragments / 



Wisdom is harmony.

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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 / 






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 / 






A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens / 






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.
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.




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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