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Quotations by Subject: Wisdom (28 quotes)

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Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.: Bible, Proverbs, 4:7
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.: Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.: Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.: Norman Douglas
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.: Rabbi Ben-Azai
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)

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