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Quotes By subject - Starting with W - Wisdom
There are 320 quotes for the subject Wisdom
Quotations 261 to 280 of 320
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Work:  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Author: Aesop
What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.
Author: Confucius
Work:  The Confucian Analects
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
Author: Khalil Gibran
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Author: Robbie Gass
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Author: Samuel Johnson
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Author: Marilyn vos Savant
No man was ever great by imitation.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Never promise more than you can perform.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
The more laws, the less justice.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Author: Confucius
Work:  Analects
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