Wisdom Quotes

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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but… — Emanuel Swedenborg
Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness… — Samuel Johnson
Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can… — Gary Hamel
My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is… — Gene Oliver
Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency. — Adolf Hitler
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he… — Martin Seligman
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most… — James Madison
Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move… — Unknown Author
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her… — Seneca the Younger
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. — Lucretius
Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends. — Wallace D. Wattles
Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God. — Wallace D. Wattles
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities… — Charles Lindbergh
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom. — Clifford Stoll
It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created.… — Johannes Kepler
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the… — Benjamin Disraeli
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a… — Bertrand Russell
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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