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Wisdom Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other…
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto…
- Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
- God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more…
- Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should…
- An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the…
- Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one…
- To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
- We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn…
- To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
- Patience is the companion of wisdom. --Saint Augustine
More Wisdom Quotes
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of… — Frederick Lenz
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey. — Rumi
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle