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Novalis | Wisdom Quotes
Philosophy … bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
Sigmund Freud
Wisdom is something I would never expect from Freud. Cleverness, certainly; but not wisdom.
Robertson Davies
Bookes give no wisdom where none was before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.




Husayn ibn Ali
Wisdom will not be complete except by following the truth.
Walter Lippmann
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Bertrand Russell | Wisdom Quotes
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Norman Cousins
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
John Hennigan
We can't smell what The Rock is cookin' at the Palace of Wisdom.
Norman Finkelstein
Speaking as a devout atheist, thank God in his Almighty wisdom that he made us mortal.
Augustine of Hippo
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.
William Collins | Wisdom Quotes
O Music! sphere-descended maid,
Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!




Anthony de Mello
Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
Bertolt Brecht
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Aristophanes
Epops: A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
(tr. in Goldstein-Jackson 1983, p. 163)
John Ray
The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
Anthony Daniels | Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom and good governance require more than the consistent application of abstract principles.
Publilius Syrus
He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.
Alan Perlis
Both knowledge and wisdom extend man's reach. Knowledge led to computers, wisdom to chopsticks.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
George Crabbe
In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.


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