Wisdom Quotes

• "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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• "It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom."
  By: Bible, Proverbs (ch. X, v. 23)
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• "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her."
  By: Bible, Proverbs (ch. III, v. 13-18)
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• "Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?"
  By: Bible, Proverbs (ch. I, v. 20-22)
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• "And Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you."
  By: Bible, Job (ch. XII, v. 1-2)
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• "You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning."
  By: Richard Baxter
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• "Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, and ever, ever will obey."
  By: Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld
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• "Wisdom consists not no much in seeing as in foreseeing."
  By: Hosea Ballou
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• "The highest conceptions of the sages, who, in order to arrive at them, had to live many days, have become the milk for babes."
  By: Pierre Simon Ballanche
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• "Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own."
  By: John Balguy
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• "Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing; it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger who digged and made room for him; it is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour."
  By: Francis Bacon
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• "There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
  By: Francis Bacon
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• "Socrates was pronounced by the Oracle of Delphos to be the wisest man in Greece, which he would turn from himself ironically, saying there could be nothing in him to verify the oracle, except this, that he was not wise and knew it, and others were not wise and knew it not."
  By: Francis Bacon
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• "In seeking wisdom then art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool."
  By: Rabbi Ben Azai (Aze)
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• "As whole caravans may light their lamps from one candle without exhausting it, so myriads of tribes may gain wisdom from the great Book without impoverishing it."
  By: Rabbi Ben Azai (Aze)
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• "Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives."
  By: Aristophanes
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