wisdom Quotes

“Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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“fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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“O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

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“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.”

― Jack London, White Fang

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“It requires the greatest kind of wisdom . . . to know when to apply injustice.”

― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

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