Wisdom

(71 votes)   Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(69 votes)   He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ben Jonson

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(67 votes)   It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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(67 votes)   It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

Sir Roger L'Estrange

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(67 votes)   Who is wise? One who learns from all.

The Talmud
BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition

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(67 votes)   Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Bergen Evens

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

Francis Bacon

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(66 votes)   Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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(66 votes)   Some look out over a meadow and only see a sea of green. I look out and see a single blade of grass!

Carl Stoynoff
poet/philosopher

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(65 votes)   Never trust a person who doesn't vote

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(65 votes)   There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Martin Luther
1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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(65 votes)   To be wise and love exceeds man's might.

William Shakespeare

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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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(64 votes)   As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha
568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism

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(64 votes)   He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus
50-120, Stoic Philosopher

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