WISDOM QUOTES VII

quotations about wisdom


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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra


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Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


All wisdom ends in paradox.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES

The Virgin Suicides

Tags: Jeffrey Eugenides


Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

PLATO

Charmides


He that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1746

Tags: Benjamin Franklin


A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence.

DAVID HUME

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Tags: David Hume


The wise men were all fools, what to do?

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Last to Die", Magic

Tags: Bruce Springsteen


Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear

Tags: William Shakespeare


A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

Tags: Charles Caleb Colton


Many things imperfect by nature are made perfect by wisdom.

NICCOLO UZZANO

attributed, Day's Collacon


Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.

WILLIAM CAMDEN

attributed, Day's Collacon


We disgrace wisdom when we would strive to support it with folly.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Cunning", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Tags: Francis Bacon


Wisdom is the lost property of the believer.

MUHAMMAD

Muhammad: The Last Prophet


Better to be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

AESOP

"Juno and the Peacock", Aesop's Fables

Tags: Aesop


A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

EIJI YOSHIKAWA

Taiko

Tags: Eiji Yoshikawa


Wisdom teaches us to live content upon a bone gnawed bare.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

Tags: Abraham Miller


What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Emile

Tags: Jean-Jacques Rousseau


The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Proverbs of Hell

Tags: William Blake