#wisdom

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. ↗

— Sophocles

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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. ↗

— Sophocles

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. ↗

— Leo Strauss

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I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. ↗

— Hippolyte Taine

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Wisdom is found only in truth. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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