Wisdom Quotes

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There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep. — W. Somerset Maugham
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a festival only to the wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. — Julius Charles Hare
The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control… — Epicurus
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be. — Baltasar Gracian
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life. — Henri Bergson
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go… — Seneca the Younger
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. — Hal Borland
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. — Maurice Maeterlinck
Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man. — Aristotle
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis. — Benjamin Disraeli
I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the… — Noel Coward
There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times… — John Powell
Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark. — Michel de Montaigne
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. — Samuel Johnson
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now. — W. Somerset Maugham
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events. — George Santayana
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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