Wisdom

(201 votes)   Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Isaac Asimov
1920-1992, Russian-born American Author

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(196 votes)   Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(195 votes)   In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Anacharsis

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(169 votes)   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 talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Yiddish Proverbs
Sayings of Yiddish Origin

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(157 votes)   As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(157 votes)   The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Socrates

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(157 votes)   Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder
BC 234-149, Roman Statesman, Orator

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(150 votes)   The only difference between a flower and a weed is......Judgement

Anonymous

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(149 votes)   We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(129 votes)   An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

Mahatma Ghandi

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(127 votes)   The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher

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(123 votes)   tooth and nail

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(122 votes)   I have never been wholly comfortable in social settings, so I never say much. Yet, very good with people is how I have often been described. Appearance and courteous gesture is remembered far longer than words.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(119 votes)   Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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