To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Great short quote and quotation by: Horace, Epistles , Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC – 8 BC)
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Great short quote and quotation by: Plutarch , Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD – 120 AD)
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. Great short quote and quotation by: Saint Augustine , Carthaginian author, saint, & church father (354 AD – 430 AD)
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Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them. Great short quote and quotation by: Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book “Apocalypse Explained” #338 , […]
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Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo"
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexandre Dumas, Translation from “The Count of Monte Cristo” , French dramatist & novelist (1802 – 1870)
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it–and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again–and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a […]
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Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Great short quote and quotation by: Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935 , US poet & short story author (1898 – 1943)
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong. Great short quote and quotation by: Norman Douglas ,
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Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety. Great short quote and quotation by: Tryon Edwards , (1809 – 1894)
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? Great short quote and quotation by: T. S. Eliot, The Rock , British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 – 1965)