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Quotations by Subject: Wisdom (28 quotes)

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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.: T. E. Lawrence (1888 - 1935), "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.: Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC), On Leveling All Things
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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.: Menander (342 BC - 292 BC), Unidentified fragment
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.: Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Trinummus
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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
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It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
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To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
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