WISDOM QUOTES VI

quotations about wisdom

On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

EDWARD YOUNG

Love of Fame


Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

DAN BROWN

Angels & Demons

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Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

CHARLES DE LINT

"The Forest is Crying", The Ivory and the Horn

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The wise man is but a clever infant spelling letters from a hierographical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

THOMAS CARLYLE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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In much wisdom is much grief.

BIBLE

Ecclesiastes 1:18


When wisdom leaves the house folly enters it.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom.
She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre,
And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

PLATO

Charmides


He who understands the wise is wise already.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook E", Aphorisms

Tags: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence.

DAVID HUME

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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Wise men know each other.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


We have all met people who seek wisdom so they can wear it like a lecturer wears his robes, clear proof that they "know" more than others. But spirituality is not about "having" more knowledge. It is about "being". A person can write eloquent novels about wisdom, but if they don't know how to "be" that, it means zilch.

DEVORAH HENDERSON

"Intro: Wisdom is Not Copyrighted", Walking Kabbalah


Wisdom is the never-failing granary of thought.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear

Tags: William Shakespeare


The wise men were all fools, what to do?

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Last to Die", Magic

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The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Seen from the distance of 50 years, a lot of the assumed political wisdom is noteworthy mostly for just how wrong it was.

LILY ROTHMAN

"50 Years Ago This Week: Why the Presidential Campaign Starts Earlier Than Ever", Time, April 10, 2017


He who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom is safe.

BIBLE

Proverbs 28:26


It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook K", Aphorisms

Tags: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The Excursion

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