Wisdom Quotes

• "For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit."
  By: William Mountford (1)
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• "Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die."
  By: Hannah More
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• "He who has once been very foolish will at no other time be very wise. [Fr., Qui aura este une fois bien fol ne sera nulle aultre fois bien sage.]"
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays (bk. III, ch. VI)
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• "A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. [Fr., Le sage vit tant qu'il doibt, non pas tant qu'il peut.]"
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays (bk. II, ch. III)
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• "The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays (bk. I, ch. XXV)
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• "It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. [Fr., Il est bon de frotter et limer notre cervelle contre celle d'autrui.]"
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays (bk. I, ch. XXIV)
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• "Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "A man must become wise at his own expense."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."
  By: Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin)
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• "Socrates . . . Whom, well inspir'd, the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 274)
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• "But to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 192)
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• "Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 686)
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• "A little too wise they say do ne'er live long."
  By: Thomas Middleton, The Phenix (act I, sc. 1)
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• "Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise."
  By: Philip Massinger, Duke of Milan (act I, sc. 2, l. 45)
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• "Talk not to me of the wisdom of women,--I know my own sex well; the wisest of us all are but little less foolish than the rest."
  By: Mary, Queen of Scots
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• "Whoever is not too wise is wise. [Lat., Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.]"
  By: Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrammata (XIV, 10, 2)
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