Wisdom Quotes

• "Whoever is not too wise is wise. [Lat., Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.]"
  By: Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrammata (XIV, 10, 2)
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• "That man strangely mistakes the manner of spirit he is of who knows not that peaceableness, and gentleness, and mercy, as well as purity, are inseparable characteristics of the wisdom that is from above; and that Christian charity ought never to be sacrificed even for the promotion of evangelical truth."
  By: Richard Mant
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• "No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise."
  By: Martin Luther
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• "If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old."
  By: Martin Luther
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• "Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline (pt. I, III, l. 11)
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• "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
  By: Walter Lippmann
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• "God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise."
  By: Vachel Lindsay
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• "It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral."
  By: David Herbert Lawrence
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• "Wisdom is the repose of the mind."
  By: Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater)
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• "Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why."
  By: Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater)
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• "Wisdom is knowing what to do next."
  By: Sister Mary Lauretta (Mary Lauretta Bishop?)
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• "Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
  By: Doug Larson
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• "It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. [Fr., Il est plus aise d'etre sage pour les autres, que pour soi-meme.]"
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes
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• "Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "When a man seems to be wise, it is merely that his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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