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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Samuel Johnson

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!

Homer

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Sophocles

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Ambrose Bierce

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Samuel Johnson

There are three classes of men, lovers of wisdom lovers of honor and lovers of gain.

It was perhaps one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

C. S. Lewis

There is a wisdom of the head and a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to discourage them from ambitious attempts and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end, it has but one thing certain and that is to increase taxes.

Thomas Paine

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs fables folk sayings and quotations.

William Feather

The truest greatness lies in being kind the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Come come leave business to idlers and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty and pleasure my occupation and let father Time shake his glass.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People with their wisdom and unwisdom, we have to say Like People like Government.

Thomas Carlyle

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Euripides

I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President I never will.

Barack Obama

However glorious an action in itself it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool, the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted and when it be obeyed.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Open the gates of wisdom tear the veil of ignorance enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.

Sai Baba

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles

Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.

Plutarch

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Oscar Wilde

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly, we either overstate it or understate it.

Hillary Clinton

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day, wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

There is a 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.

In life all good things come hard but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Lucille Ball

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

George Santayana

On life's journey faith is nourishment virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

God give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Robert Hall

At sixty I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty but I know a great deal more about folly.

Mason Cooley

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

George Eliot

Innocence dwells with wisdom but never with ignorance

This is the highest wisdom that I own, freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So confident am I in the intentions as well as wisdom of the government that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done either cannot or ought not to be done.

Thomas Jefferson

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Erma Bombeck

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

William Shakespeare

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Plato

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation as regulated by wisdom.

Aristotle

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

James Madison

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke

Practice is as important for confirming one in wisdom as reading is important for confirming one in knowledge.

All the crap that they tell you about ... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe ... I've gained no wisdom no insight no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again today.

Woody Allen

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

William Shakespeare

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Snowball: How Warren Buffett Collected Friends Wisdom and Wealth.

Warren Buffett

Desire destroys devotion, anger destroys wisdom, greed destroys work - hence these bad qualities must be sacrificed. With good and sweet words, keeping desires under check and control (for ultimate removal) one should start on the path of sacrifice.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time of course alter things to the worse and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better what shall be the end?.

It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and rapidly as folly.

Make a proper investigation first. Proper investigation is good for a well-known person like yourself.

Buddha

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Anatole France

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Wilson Mizner

And having wisdom with each studious year in meditation dwelt with learning wrought and shaped his weapon with an edge severe sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.

Lord Byron

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Kahlil Gibran

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love Wisdom and Bliss!

Sai Baba

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

Confucius

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius

Man has boyhood adolescence youth middle age and senescence as stages of growth, there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.

In science as in art and as I believe in every other sphere of human activity there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors but it is only in one or two of them.

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

Woody Allen

If suffering brings wisdom I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler Yeats

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning this nation trusted in God not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

Mitt Romney

As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Albert Einstein

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

George Santayana

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Kahlil Gibran

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much, wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right.

William Hazlitt

The fire of hatred that was burning in them was cooled, and darkness gave place to the dawn of wisdom. The sky showered raindrops to soften the earth and lay down dust. How can the lament operate against the Divine Will?

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom, to practice with vigor is near to benevolence, and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.

Confucius

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Aristotle

The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.

James Allen

As I was walking among the fires of Hell delighted with the enjoyments of Genius, which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs thinking that, as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.

William Blake

Adore Him(GOD) placing a garland of tears around His neck, washing His feet with tears springing from joy at the contemplation of His Love! That very worship will endow you with the wisdom that Sages seek and the Bliss that the Books extol!

Sai Baba

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Plato

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Euripides

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge of Wisdom heaven-born remain sweet running waters thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

Francis Bacon

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax, government transfer payments have become less progressive.

Paul Ryan

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Wisdom, I know, is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Thomas Jefferson

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Both in thought and in feeling even though time be real to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

In my definition of consciousness consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

The only medicine for suffering crime and all other woes of mankind is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Francis Bacon

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

We give advice but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so, but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Maya Angelou

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

John Kenneth Galbraith

They whom truth and wisdom lead can gather honey from a weed.

Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Lao Tzu

Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Francis of Assisi

The more tranquil a man becomes the greater is his success his influence his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

James Allen

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

Confucius

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

Deepak Chopra

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

Rush Limbaugh

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

H. L. Mencken

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Friedrich Schiller

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thomas Jefferson

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money and that is sincerity and integrity.

Douglas Adams

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Michel de Montaigne

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

William Shakespeare

Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Euripides

We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers people able to put together the right information at the right time think critically about it and make important choices wisely.

E. O. Wilson

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.

Sai Baba

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Henry Ward Beecher

If I don't have wisdom I can teach you only ignorance.

Leo Buscaglia

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom not a guide by which to live.

Robert Kennedy

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life ourselves and the world around us.

Socrates

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Plato

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry but a kind of instinct or inspiration such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit / Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? / Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod / Or Love in a golden bowl?

William Blake

Poor and content is rich and rich enough.

William Shakespeare

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom, to serve all but love only one.

Honore de Balzac

Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity, kindness.

Confucius
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