Wisdom Quotes

• "Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead."
  By: Augustus William Hare
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• "Wisdom is the olive that springeth from the heart, bloometh on the tongue, and beareth fruit in the actions."
  By: Edward Grymestone
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• "Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom."
  By: Hugo Grotius
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• "Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine."
  By: Horace Greeley
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• "Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."
  By: Baltasar Gracian (used pseudonym Lorenzo Gracian)
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• "Wisdom makes but a slow defence against trouble, though at last a sure one."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XXI)
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• "Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]"
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Spruche in Prosa (III)
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• "Wisdom,--a man's best friend."
  By: Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone
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• "The true greatness and the true happiness of a country consist in wisdom; in that enlarged and comprehensive wisdom which includes education, knowledge, religion, virtue, freedom, with every influence which advances and every institution which supports them."
  By: Henry Giles
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• "Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise."
  By: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard
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• "No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked."
  By: Charles James Fox, see Campbell's "Lives of the Lord Chancellors", vol. V, p. 661
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• "Wisdom sails with wind and time."
  By: John Florio
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• "Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate."
  By: Henry Fielding
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• "Beyond the sundown is tomorrow's wisdom, today is going to be long, long ago."
  By: Thomas Hornsby Ferril
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• "Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best."
  By: Owen Felltham (Feltham)
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• "He is wise that is wise to himself."
  By: Euripides
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