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Wisdom is the health of the soul. - Victor Hugo True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. - David Humphreys Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box. - Thomas Henry Huxley It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. - William Ralph Inge The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James Wisdom is the winner over good luck. - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (XIII, 20) The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. - Lucis Caecilius Lactantis (Lactantius) ("The Christian Cicero") A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches. - Walter Savage Landor Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory. - Walter Savage Landor It is great folly to wish only to be wise. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Man's chief wisdom consists in being sensible of his follies. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld When a man seems to be wise, it is merely that his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. [Fr., Il est plus aise d'etre sage pour les autres, que pour soi-meme.] - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. - Doug Larson Wisdom is knowing what to do next. - Sister Mary Lauretta (Mary Lauretta Bishop?) Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) Wisdom is the repose of the mind. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. - David Herbert Lawrence I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. - Abraham Lincoln God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise. - Vachel Lindsay It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann Displaying page 6 of 12 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8 9 10 11 12
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