wisdom Quotes

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“Wisdom . . . is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

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“For the function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil; whereas, inasmuch as all things morally wrong are evil, trickery prefers the evil to the good.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

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“The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Real wisdom is being stored away in the subcellars by the misers of learning.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Séraphîta

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“Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

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“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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