Wisdom Quotes

Here are some delightful quotations and quotes that convey profound truth about wisdom as distilled by famous writers and the world religions:-

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
G. C. Lichtenberg

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes

A brief resume of some wisdom quotes that may even qualify as being " Central Poetry Insights " is set out in the following scrollable panel:-

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust

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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt Brecht

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Cicero

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin Fischer

There is one mind common to all individual men.
Of the works of this mind history is the record. Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. All the facts of history pre-exist as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Epoch after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of this manifold spirit to the manifold world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
From his Essay 'History'

History is for human self-knowledge ... the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
R. G. Collingwood

Whatever concept one may hold, from a metaphysical point of view, concerning the freedom of the will, certainly its appearances, which are human actions, like every other natural event, are determined by universal laws. However obscure their causes, history, which is concerned with narrating these appearances, permits us to hope that if we attend to the play of freedom of the human will in the large, we may be able to discern a regular movement in it, and that what seems complex and chaotic in the single individual may be seen from the standpoint of the human race as a whole to be a steady and progressive though slow evolution of its original endowment.
Immanuel Kant
Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)

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