Wisdom Quotes

• "Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn."
  By: Sophocles
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• "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
  By: Socrates in Plato's "Phaedrus", sec. CCXXXV
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• "Wisdom adorns riches, and shadows poverty."
  By: Socrates
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• "The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already."
  By: William Gilmore Simms
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• "Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next."
  By: Charles Simmons (2)
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• "What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "Well, God give them wisdom that have it, and those that are fools, let them use their talents."
  By: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Clown at I, v)
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• "'Tis much he dares; And to that dauntless temper of his mind He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor To act in safety."
  By: William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at III, i)
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• "'Tis your noblest course: Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it."
  By: William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Thidias at III, xiii)
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• "Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly."
  By: William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at I, i)
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• "Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will, then wisdom finds a way."
  By: William Shakespeare
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