Wisdom - Quotes

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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Newman

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Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.

C. J. Anderson

They will envy you for your success, for your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Josh Billings

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

Elbert Hubbard

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn`t yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself.

Orson Scott Card

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Doug Larson

Wisdom leads the soul to the place of God.

Sextus

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefix`d to my tables of examination, for daily use: "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me."

Benjamin Franklin

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom, compassion and courage - these are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

Confucius

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