“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
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“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”
“Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.”
“Wisdom is found only in truth.”
“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.”
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”
“Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.”
“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”