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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.
Author: Roger Ascham
Source: Dedication to All the Gentlemen and Yeomen of England
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: (according to Lord Brougham), also attributed to Edmund Burke "Observations on a Late Publication on
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For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 18)
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The heart of the wise in in the house of mourning, but the heart
of fools is in the house of mirth.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. VII, v. 4)
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It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to
hear the song of fools.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. VII, v. 5)
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The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the
masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. XII, v. 11)
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He taketh wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the
froward is carried headlong.
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. V, v. 13)
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And Job answered and said,
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XII, v. 1-2)
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No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price
of wisdom is above rubies.
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XXVIII, v. 18)
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I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach
wisdom.
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XXXII, v. 7)
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Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand
judgment.
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XXXII, v. 9)
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And the load commended the unjust steward, because he had done
wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation
wiser than the children of light.
Author: Bible
Source: Luke (ch. XVI, v. 8)
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Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye
therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. X, v. 16)
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The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a
man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and
sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. XI, v. 19)
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Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of
the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the
scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. I, v. 20-22)
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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with
all thy getting get understanding.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. IV, v. 7)
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For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be
desired are not to be compared with it.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. VIII, v. 11)
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Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a
fool are in the ends of the earth.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 24)
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For old age is not honored for length of time,
or measured by number of years;
but understanding is gray hair for anyone,
and a blameless life is ripe old age.
Author: Bible
Source: Wisdom of Solomon (ch. IV, v. 8-9)
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A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religion Medici, quoted as "That insolent paradox"
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But these are foolish things to all the wise,
And I love wisdom more than she loves me;
My tendency is to philosophise
On most things, from a tyrant to a tree;
But still the spouseless virgin Knowledge flies,
What are we? and whence come we? what shall be
Our ultimate existence? What's our present?
Are questions answerless, and yet incessant.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto VI, st. 63)
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Author: Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor)
Source: in Plutarch's "Life of Cato"
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and
any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
Author: Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor)
Source: in Plutarch's "Life of Cato"
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
Author: Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor)
Source: in Plutarch's "Life of Cato"
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Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart
Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Expostulation (l. 634)
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
Author: Socrates
Source: None
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Author: Sandra Carey
Source: None
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'… I can't fathom my own heart.
Author: Michael Caine
Source: None
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The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
Author: John A Simone, Jr.
Source: None
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Author: W. R. Inge
Source: None
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Author: Walter Lippman
Source: None
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Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Author: Joseph Roux
Source: None
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Author: Karl Kraus
Source: None
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
Author: John Henry Cardinal Newman
Source: None
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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Author: Confucius
Source: None
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To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom.
Author: Sid Mendenhall
Source: None
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: None
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