Wisdom

(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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(84 votes)   There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. These are periods when...to dare is the highest wisdom.

William Ellery Channing

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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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(82 votes)   Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

William A. Ward
1921-,

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(82 votes)   The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(82 votes)   The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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(81 votes)   Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.

Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna
1583-1654, Swedish Statesman

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(80 votes)   If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

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(79 votes)   Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

William Butler Yeats

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(77 votes)   The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

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

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(77 votes)   The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor

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(75 votes)   Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(74 votes)   Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

Anonymous

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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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(73 votes)   Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.

Calvin Coolidge

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