Wisdom Quotes

• "On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows."
  By: Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire I, l. 249)
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• "Wisdom is rare, Lorenzo! wit abounds."
  By: Edward Young
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• "The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss."
  By: Edward Young
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• "The clouds may drop down titles and estates, both may seek us; but wisdom must be sought."
  By: Edward Young
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• "Seize wisdom ere 'tis torment to be wise; that is, seize wisdom ere she seizes thee."
  By: Edward Young
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• "On very thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows."
  By: Edward Young
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• "It's not enough plagues, wars, and famine rise to lash our crimes, but must our wives be wise?"
  By: Edward Young
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• "And he is oft the wisest man Who is not wise at all."
  By: William Wordsworth, The Oak and the Broom
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• "Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar."
  By: William Wordsworth, The Excursion (bk. III, l. 232)
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• "Wisdom sits with children round her knees."
  By: William Wordsworth
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• "He is oft the wisest man who is not wise at all."
  By: William Wordsworth
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• "Wisdom sits alone, Topmost in heaven:--she is its light--its God; And in the heart of man she sits as high-- Though grovelling eyes forget her oftentimes, Seeing but this world's idols. The pure mind Sees her forever: and in youth we come Fill'd with her sainted ravishment, and kneel, Worshipping God through her sweet altar fires, And then is knowledge "good.""
  By: Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Scholar of Thibet--Ben Khorat (pt. II, l. 93)
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• "Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols."
  By: Nathaniel Parker Willis
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• "People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."
  By: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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• "Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, Obtained with labour, for mankind employed, And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
  By: William Whitehead, On Nobility
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• "It may be said, almost without qualification, that the wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter it is deceptive."
  By: Archbishop Richard Whately
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