“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”
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“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”
“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.”
“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”
“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
“Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.”
“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.”
“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”
“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”
“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.”
“Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.”