wisdom Quotes

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

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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“Chastisement for errors past Wisdom brings to age at last.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

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“silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

― Plutarch, Moralia

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“Then we may begin by assuming that there are three classes of men—lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain?”

― Plato, The Republic

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“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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“The wise speak only of what they know”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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“For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other...”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

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