Wisdom Quotes

• "Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart."
  By: William Cowper, Expostulation (l. 634)
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• "Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace."
  By: William Cowper
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• "You read of but one wise man; and all that he knew was--that he knew nothing."
  By: William Congreve
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• "Common sense is an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
  By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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• "Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity and peace."
  By: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short)
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• "Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so."
  By: 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope
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• "We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them."
  By: Pierre Charron
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• "The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man."
  By: Thomas Carlyle
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• "But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me; My tendency is to philosophise On most things, from a tyrant to a tree; But still the spouseless virgin Knowledge flies, What are we? and whence come we? what shall be Our ultimate existence? What's our present? Are questions answerless, and yet incessant."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto VI, st. 63)
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• "Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise."
  By: Edmund Burke
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• "Wisdom no more consists in science than happiness in wealth."
  By: Marquis Stanislas Jean de Boufflers
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• "The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so."
  By: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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• "The whole of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
  By: William Blake
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• "For old age is not honored for length of time, or measured by number of years; but understanding is gray hair for anyone, and a blameless life is ripe old age."
  By: Bible, Wisdom of Solomon (Apocrypha) (ch. IV, v. 8-9)
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• "For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil."
  By: Bible, Romans (ch. XVI, v. 19)
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