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Below are some wonderful words on being wise. Enjoy these thoughts and sayings on wisdom.Wisdom Quotes 1 - 25 out of 25
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."- Cicero
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."- Charles Dickens
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."- George Santayana
"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."- Doug Larson
"A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance."- Henry David Thoreau
"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself."- Marlene Dietrich
"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."- Oprah Winfrey
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."- William James
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."- David Starr Jordan
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind."- Albert Schweitzer
More Great Wisdom Quotes
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."- Sophocles
"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool."- Lord Chesterfield
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."- William Saroyan
"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows."- Edward Young
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."- Bertrand Russell
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."- Benjamin Franklin
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."- Mahatma Gandhi
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."- Benjamin Disraeli
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."- Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Wisdom is a sacred communion."- Victor Hugo
"The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man."- Marcus Aurelius
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."- Francis Bacon
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