Wisdom

(290 votes)   -The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Charles Darwin

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(87 votes)   ...the ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the wrong beliefs.

F.A. Hayek

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(42 votes)   A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(66 votes)   A man is but what he knoweth.

Francis Bacon

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(48 votes)   A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(169 votes)   A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Yiddish Proverbs
Sayings of Yiddish Origin

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(368 votes)   A real act of honesty is not enough to be honored by everyone, but being witnessed by you and God alone.

Czeonollo

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(49 votes)   A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(26 votes)   A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

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(103 votes)   A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

African Proverbs
Sayings of African Origin

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(82 votes)   A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read. To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Thomas Dekker

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(64 votes)   A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Niccolo Machiavelli
1469-1527, Italian Author, Statesman

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(87 votes)   Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(37 votes)   All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

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(73 votes)   All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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