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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. - Baltasar Gracian (used pseudonym Lorenzo Gracian) Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine. - Horace Greeley Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom. - Hugo Grotius Wisdom is the olive that springeth from the heart, bloometh on the tongue, and beareth fruit in the actions. - Edward Grymestone Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead. - Augustus William Hare To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth. - William Hazlitt (1) Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering. - Sir Arthur Helps Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. - Heraclitus of Ephesus All foreign wisdom doth amount to this, To take all that is given, whether wealth, Or love, or language; nothing comes amiss: A good digestion turneth all to health. - George Herbert Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee. - James Hervey The wise man sayth, store is no sore. - John Heywood Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) The heart is wiser than the intellect. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb), Kathrina (pt. II, st. 9) Wisdom is the abstract of the past. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature. - Henry Home, Lord Kames Wisdom never lies. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But, wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. III, l. 199), (Pope's translation) For never, never, wicked man was wise. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. II, l. 320), (Pope's translation) In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare! - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. VII, l. 379), (Pope's translation) How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XIII, l. 375), (Pope's translation) Sagacious in making useful discoveries. [Lat., Utiliumque sagax rerum et divina futuri.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (218) Dare to be wise. [Lat., Sapere aude.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 2, 40) Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself. [Lat., Quisnam igitur liber? Sapiens, sibi qui imperiosus; Quem neque pauperies, neque mors, neque vincula terrent Responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores Fortis; et in se ipso totus, teres atque rotundus.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (bk. II, VII, 83) Wisdom and eloquence are not always united. - Victor Hugo Displaying page 5 of 12 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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