Sunday, July 27, 2008

Famous Quotes about Wisdom (202 Quotations)


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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Chuck Noll

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Mark Twain

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A nation's treasure is its scholars.
Yiddish Proverb

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Chinese Proverb

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A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus

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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
African Proverb

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
John Churton Collins

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Helen Rowland

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber

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Action should culminate in wisdom.
Bhagavad Gita

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All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides

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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Buddha

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Chinese Proverb

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Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna

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Better to get wisdom than gold.
Bible

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]
Bible

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By others faults the wise correct their own.
Proverb

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