Wisdom Quotes

• "Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "Man's chief wisdom consists in being sensible of his follies."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "It is great folly to wish only to be wise."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory."
  By: Walter Savage Landor
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• "A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches."
  By: Walter Savage Landor
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• "The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true."
  By: Lucis Caecilius Lactantis (Lactantius) ("The Christian Cicero")
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• "Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]"
  By: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (XIII, 20)
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• "Wisdom is the winner over good luck."
  By: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
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• "The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
  By: William James
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• "Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box."
  By: Thomas Henry Huxley
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• "True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing."
  By: David Humphreys
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• "Wisdom is the health of the soul."
  By: Victor Hugo
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• "Wisdom and eloquence are not always united."
  By: Victor Hugo
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• "Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself. [Lat., Quisnam igitur liber? Sapiens, sibi qui imperiosus; Quem neque pauperies, neque mors, neque vincula terrent Responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores Fortis; et in se ipso totus, teres atque rotundus.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (bk. II, VII, 83)
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• "Dare to be wise. [Lat., Sapere aude.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 2, 40)
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• "Sagacious in making useful discoveries. [Lat., Utiliumque sagax rerum et divina futuri.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (218)
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