#wisdom

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#ignorance #wisdom

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom. ↗

— Jean Bodin

#history #political #study #wisdom

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ↗

— George Eliot

#forsake #helpful #human #more #pity

Cleverness is not wisdom. ↗

— Euripides

#cleverness

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#fear #ignorance #neither #nor #where

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it. ↗

— Mary Astell

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The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes. ↗

— Mary Astell

#considerable #dignity #even #eyes #father

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. ↗

— Alfred Austin

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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#day #folly #for the day #leaves #prepares

A little nonsense now and then, Is cherished by the wisest men. ↗

— John August

#wisdom #men