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That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about education

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Quote by Paul Engle about wisdom, contentment

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about rules, contentment

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about wisdom, knowledge, use, rightness, man

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli about wisdom, man

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Quote by Helen Keller about opinion, enemies, self-control, world

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Quote by Sidonie - Gabrielle Colette about wisdom, happiness, being

When I can look at Life with eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise; Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange - my youth.

Quote by Sara Teasdale about life, youth, eyes, truth

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.

JQuote by John Balguy about contentment, happiness

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Quote by André Breton about literature, art, writing, nature

The wise are above books.

Quote by Samuel Daniel about wisdom, books

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Quote by Thomas Hobbes about word, money, man

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; When fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Quote by Johann Gottfried von Herder about poetry, word

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Quote by Molière about temperance, reason, perfection

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Quote by Molière about wisdom, insults, patience, man

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Quote by John Lubbock about education, man

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Quote by Bertolt Brecht about poverty, contentment

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine about experience, prophecy, man

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Quote by Stevie Wonder about opinion, poverty

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Quote by Benjamin Jonson about talking, things, man