wisdom Quotes

“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. And, in scientific inquiry, at any rate, it is to that one or two that we...”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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“For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite the man that mocks at it and sets it light.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

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“it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“Of happiness the chiefest part is a wise heart: And to defraud the gods in aught with peril's fraught.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

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“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”

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

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“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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“It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“The wise man molds himself—the fool lives only to die.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

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“It is because I was foolish then that I am wise to-day.”

― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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“There is a wisdom in this; beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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