Wisdom Quotes
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue




A country is considered the more civilized the more wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.
Levi Levi Primo




Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion




To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates
Henry Thoreau




That we will, at all times hereafter, consider ourselves as a free and independent state, capable of regulating our internal police, in all and every respect whatsoever -- and that the people on said Grants have the sole and exclusive and inherent right of ruling and governing themselves in such manner and form as in their own wisdom they shall think proper.




From meditation springs wisdom. From lack of meditation, loss of wisdom. Recognising these alternative roads of progress and decline, one should so direct oneself so that one's wisdom will increase
Lord Buddha




We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.
Robert Adam




Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world




A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.




Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.




Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.




Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.




We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.




The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.




Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
Steve Albini




Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
Stanley Kunitz




Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.




The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Galbraith




"The greatest wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more." "The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood."




Fill up, fill up, for wisdom cools When ever we let the wine rest. Here is death to Prohibitions fools, And every kind of vine-pest!
Jamrach Holobom




Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.




A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
Lord John Russell




Of all things wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.




Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.




It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.
Johannes Kepler







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