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Wisdom Quotes
- "Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn."
By: Sophocles
Wisdom Quotes
- "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
By: Socrates in Plato's "Phaedrus", sec. CCXXXV
Wisdom Quotes
- "Wisdom adorns riches, and shadows poverty."
By: Socrates
Wisdom Quotes
- "The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already."
By: William Gilmore Simms
Wisdom Quotes
- "Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next."
By: Charles Simmons (2)
Wisdom Quotes
- "What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living."
By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
Wisdom Quotes
- "The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it."
By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
Wisdom Quotes
- "Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power."
By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
Wisdom Quotes
- "A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome."
By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
Wisdom Quotes
- "Well, God give them wisdom that have it, and those that are fools, let them use their talents."
By: William Shakespeare,
Twelfth Night, or, What You Will
(Clown at I, v)
Wisdom Quotes
- "'Tis much he dares;
And to that dauntless temper of his mind
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor
To act in safety."
By: William Shakespeare, Macbeth
(Macbeth at III, i)
Wisdom Quotes
- "'Tis your noblest course:
Wisdom and fortune combating together,
If that the former dare but what it can,
No chance may shake it."
By: William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
(Thidias at III, xiii)
Wisdom Quotes
- "Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him
That they take place when virtue's steely bones
Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly."
By: William Shakespeare,
All's Well That Ends Well
(Helena at I, i)
Wisdom Quotes
- "Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile."
By: William Shakespeare
Wisdom Quotes
- "Wisdom and fortune combating together,
If that the former dare but what it can,
No chance may shake it."
By: William Shakespeare
Wisdom Quotes
- "In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, then wisdom finds a way."
By: William Shakespeare
Wisdom Quotes
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- "We are always beginning to live, but are never living."
By: Manilius
Living Quotes
- "Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
By: Og Mandino
Life Quotes
- ""The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.""
By: Unknown
Proverbs Quotes
- ""Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand.""
By: Unknown
Proverbs Quotes
- ""You never test the depth of a river with both feet.""
By: Unknown
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- ""A Wise Man can see more from the bottom of a well than a Fool can see from the top of a mountain." ."
By: Unknown
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- "The hand that turneth the knob, opens the door.."
By: Unknown
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By: Unknown
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