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Quote 3382
One becomes calmer regarding many things, and precisely because of that one is more fit for one's work.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3381
And love is something eternal, it changes its aspect but not its foundation.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3377
I cannot admit that they are living the good life.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3376
A small number of them may enrich a community; but a world composed of them would die of boredom.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3375
Civilization should be something added to this, not substituted for it,Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3374
I think that in all descriptions of the good life here on earth we must assume a certain basis of animal vitality and animal instinct; without this, life becomes tame and uninteresting.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3373
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3371
Love is the life out of which are fashioned all the natural feelings, every emotion of man.by: MacDonaldShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3369
For repose is not the end of education; its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awaking from the dead, a ceaseless questioning of the past for the interpretation of the future, an urging on of the motions of life, which had better far be accelerated into fever, than retarded into lethargy.by: MacDonaldShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3368
The only thing worth a man's care is the will of God, and that will is the same whether in this world or in the next.by: MacDonaldShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3366
I am he whom you may see any afternoon sitting by himself and musing in D'Argenson's seat.by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3365
Nowhere in the world do they play chess so skilfully as in Paris, and nowhere in Paris as they do at this coffee-house.by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3364
If the weather be too cold or too wet, I take shelter in the Regency coffee-house.by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3363
In all weathers, wet or fine, it is my practice to go, towards five o’clock in the evening, to take a turn in the Palais Royal.by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3362
My thoughts,—these are the wantons for me.by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3361
I keep up talk with myself about politics, love, taste, or philosophy;by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3360
In short, LIVING seems to me a business for which I was not made, and yet...!by: Gustave FlaubertShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3359
To get drunk with ink is more worth while than to get drunk with brandy.by: Gustave FlaubertShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3358
As for my frenzy for work, I will compare it to an attack of herpes.by: Gustave FlaubertShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3357
I would like to give you a little of my sleep that nothing, not even a cannon, can disturb.by: Gustave FlaubertShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3354
The gentleman, then, is the man who is master of himself, who respects himself, and makes others respect him.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3353
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions, such a man is a mere article of the world’s furniture.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3351
The thinker serves it by his intellect, and as a light upon its path.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3350
Many receive advice; few profit from it.by: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3349
The fear of death is more to be feared, than death itself.by: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3348
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.by: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3344
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3343
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3341
Great wits are sure to madness near allied.by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3312
Genius is hard work, stick-to-it-iveness, and common sense.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3309
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.by: SocratesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3304
The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.by: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3299
It is not the critic who counts.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3277
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3274
Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it.by: John DonneShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3271
Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.by: John DonneShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3258
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.by: Thomas CarlyleShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3248
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3239
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.by: William HazlittShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3226
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?by: Jonathan SwiftShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3225
A great empire and little minds go ill together.by: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3222
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.by: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3218
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3215
Thought constitutes the greatness of man.by: Blaise PascalShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3214
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.by: Blaise PascalShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3210
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.by: Samuel JohnsonShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3207
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.by: William PennShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3192
Mortals' unwisdom is the worst of all.by: SophoclesShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3178
Do not attempt too much at once.by: AesopShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3156
It is wrong always, everywhere and for any one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 3071
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polishby: Anne BradstreetShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3043
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 3040
Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoatShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2987
Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass itAfrican proverbShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2984
A wise man seeks wisdom; a madman thinks that he has found it.Persian proverbShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2979
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of the cats is infinitely superior.by: Hyppolyte TaineShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2938
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creationby: John LockeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2924
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of itby: John LockeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2883
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 2869
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look outShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2862
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everythingShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 2838
In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2766
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiotsby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2748
It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of othersby: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2739
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select partyby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2736
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom, one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wiseby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2654
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow studentShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2537
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn thingsShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 2483
The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by themShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2474
There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdomShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 2463
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new powerShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 2446
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more sereneShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2436
A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledgeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2416
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distributionby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2414
It is the mind that makes the body richby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 2404
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charityby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2369
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 2324
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and moreShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2259
One wise man's verdict outweighs all the foolsby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2189
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its placeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2146
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.Showing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2141
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may leadby: Luther BurbankShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 2138
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of natureby: Luther BurbankShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2122
The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instructionby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 2108
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wiseby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2103
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunningby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of Godby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 2078
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enoughby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 2028
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.Showing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 2026
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of educationby: AntisthenesShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 1998
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and wellShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 1996
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besidesShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 1818
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeedby: Edward YoungShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 1788
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughterby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 1783
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian geniusby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 1773
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideasby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on wisdom
Quote 1755
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compassby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 1741
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothingby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on wisdom
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Quote 1717
They know enough who know how to learnShowing Quotes on wisdom
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