SOME
WISDOM QUOTES
Wisdom is knowledge, learning, intelligence, reason, insight,
sagacity, enlightenment, philosophy, experience, perception, etc., and a wise
person is one who is learned, sensible,
prudent, astute, reasonable, rational, logical, sane, enlightened, knowledgeable,
experienced, etc.
What follows are famous quotes on wisdom:
1.Common-sense
in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. 2. A nod to the wise, a
rod to the foolish. 3. He is wise who knows sources of knowledge. 4. There is
one person that is wiser than anybody and that is everybody. 5. Much wisdom
often goes with fewest words. 6. Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the
body. 7. Our chief wisdom consists in knowing our follies and faults, that we
may correct them. 8. God gives men wisdom as he gives them gold; his treasure
house is not mint, but the mine. 9. Among mortals second thoughts are wise. 10.
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
Finally, what the Persian poet
Sheikh Saadi Shirazi (1210- ?) said : He
who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life is like a
man who ploughs in his field but does not sow.
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G.R.Kanwal
12thApril 2024
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