George Eliot Quote

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Edgar Allan Poe

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

John Keats

• Wisdom

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Kahlil Gibran

• Wisdom

Nature does nothing in vain.

Aristotle

• Nature

Hear the other side.

Saint Augustine

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

• Wisdom

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

• Wisdom

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Truth
• Wisdom

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Pindar

• Wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

• Wisdom

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

• Laughter

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Isocrates

• Wisdom

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Horace

• Books
• Wisdom

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

Horace

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

Homer

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Euripides

• Wisdom
• Learning

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Aeschylus

• Wisdom
• Suffering

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Aeschylus

• Wisdom

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

• Wisdom