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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

 



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

 



Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment; Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.
Rumi

 



How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Book of Proverbs 16:16

 



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

 



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