WISDOM

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(976 votes)  You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

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(1463 votes)  Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die tomorrow.

James Dean

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(1071 votes)  -The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Pythagoras

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(1023 votes)  We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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(1018 votes)  Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(966 votes)  Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. --

Isaac Asimov

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(927 votes)  We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

James Truslow Adams
American Statesman

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(923 votes)  The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(913 votes)  More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

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(888 votes)  There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman - b 1918 - Nobel Prize Winner 1993

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(883 votes)  Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study, and alos by faith.

Doctrine & Covenants

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(873 votes)  Everyone is wise until he speaks.

Irish Proverb
Sayings of Irish Origin

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(863 votes)  Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles
BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(862 votes)  Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(862 votes)  There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

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(854 votes)  Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life--in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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(853 votes)  Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.

Plato

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(841 votes)  Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles

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(833 votes)  Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes
BC 448-380, Greek Comic Poet, Satirist

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(830 votes)  In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Anacharsis

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(827 votes)  Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Isaac Asimov
1920-1992, Russian-born American Author

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(824 votes)  Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

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(819 votes)  Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

Source Unknown

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(818 votes)  Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

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(810 votes)  To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom.

John Milton

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(808 votes)  Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus
c.1-?, Macedonian Inventor and Writer

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(806 votes)  Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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(805 votes)  In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Rabbi Ben Azai
Israeli Rabbi

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(805 votes)  Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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(805 votes)  The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Socrates

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(799 votes)  A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Yiddish Proverb
Sayings of Yiddish Origin

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(796 votes)  No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British Critic

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(796 votes)  The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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(788 votes)  The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Frank Garbutt

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(785 votes)  The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all good things are thus confused with ill.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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(785 votes)  Never worry about the world ending when it its already tomorrow in Australia

Kitts

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(783 votes)  Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

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(782 votes)  We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(773 votes)  When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Sara Teasdale

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(768 votes)  The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Ibn Gabirol

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(767 votes)  The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

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(767 votes)  Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.

Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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(762 votes)  The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Socrates

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(761 votes)  Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(757 votes)  Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder
BC 234-149, Roman Statesman, Orator

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(757 votes)  Ignorance is a characteristic amongst many, while wisdom is a virtue to few.

Lucid Poet

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(744 votes)  History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban
1915-, Israeli Politician

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(742 votes)  The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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(723 votes)  Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

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(692 votes)  The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

The Talmud
BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition

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