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Quotations by Subject: Wisdom
(Related Subjects: Knowledge, Learning, Education)
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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Marilyn vos Savant
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
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Menander (342 BC - 292 BC), Unidentified fragment
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
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Robbie Gass
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
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Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
No man is wise enough by himself.
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Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Miles Gloriosus
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Trinummus
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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Unknown
Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
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William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1
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