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Wisdom is the central quality of all greatness. The wise have always led and always will lead those who are less wise.
Below you will find our collection of Wise Quotes & Sayings by famous authors, writers, world's wisest thinkers and more
Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.
Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
