- It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
― Maurice Switzer - It is delightful to transport one’s self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what glorious height we have at last reached.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
― Francois De La Rochefoucauld - It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
― Aristotle - It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
― Olive Wandell Holmes - It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
― Walter Lippmann - Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
― Aristotle - Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass.
― Owen Feltham - Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
― Plutarch - Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
― Isaac Asimov - Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
― George S. Patton - No man was ever wise by chance.
― Seneca - Not to know at large of things remote from use, obscure and subtle, but to know that which before us lies in daily life, is the prime wisdom.
― John Milton - Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
― John Tillotson - On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, in every rill a sweet instruction flows.
― Edward Young - One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
― Amos Bronson Alcott - One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
― Alexander Chase - Silence does not always mark wisdom.
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge. - Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
― Lord Byron - Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
― Robert H. Schuller
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