Wisdom

(96 votes)   No man was ever wise by chance.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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(94 votes)   Ignorance is a characteristic amongst many, while wisdom is a virtue to few.

Lucid Poet

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(94 votes)   Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(94 votes)   You can't always see things for what it is if you just stare at it, sometimes you have to step back, look at things from a different perspective and ask questions.

Leonardo Ruiz

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(88 votes)   The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Spanish Proverbs
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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(88 votes)   The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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

Phaedrus
c.1-?, Macedonian Inventor and Writer

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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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(87 votes)   Action should culminate in wisdom.

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

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(87 votes)   Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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(87 votes)   Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Dr. Seuss
American Writer and Cartoonist, b. 1904-1991

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(87 votes)   Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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(86 votes)   O World, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart.

George Santayana

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(85 votes)   The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Camerounian Proverbs
Sayings of Camerounian Origin

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(85 votes)   The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Jack Handey

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