369 Wisdom Quotes (Page-10) – 271-300
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“Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.”
― Ishida Mitsunari
272.
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin
273.
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
― Francis Bacon
274.
“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
― Ansel Adams
275.
“Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being.”
― Orison Swett Marden
276.
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
― Baltasar Gracian
277.
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien
278.
“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.”
― Euripides
279.
“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”
― Sophocles
280.
“You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can’t practice to attain wisdom.”
― Herbie Hancock
281.
“We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
282.
“It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.”
― Immanuel Kant
283.
“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”
― Moliere
284.
“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.”
― Antisthenes
285.
“Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.”
― John Fletcher
286.
“It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.”
― Gregory of Nazianzus
287.
“The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.”
― Edward Young
288.
“To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.”
― Al-Shafi‘i
289.
“Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.”
― William Stafford
290.
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
― Bertrand Russell
291.
“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
― Anatole France
292.
“It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.”
― John of the Cross
293.
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
294.
“Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.”
― Dale Turner
295.
“We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.”
― Michel de Montaigne
296.
“Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.”
― M. Scott Peck
297.
“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
298.
“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse
299.
“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”
― Benjamin Disraeli
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“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
― George R. R. Martin