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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
Leo Strauss
If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
The Talmud
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
Who is wise? One who learns from all.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurter
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
Rabbi Ben Azai
When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.
Bhagavad Gita
The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.
Action should culminate in wisdom.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Henry Ward Beecher
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Sophocles
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau