Traditional Proverbs on Wisdom & Knowledge (50 Proverbs)
- A person who doesn't know but knows that he doesn't know is a student; teach him. A person who knows but who doesn't know what he knows is asleep; awaken him. But a person who knows and knows that he knows is wise; follow him.
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- A fool dreams of wealth a wise man, of happiness.
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- All beings hate pains therefore one should not kill them. This is the quintessence of wisdom not to kill anything.
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- A questioning man is halfway to being wise.
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- A man remains wise as long as he seeks wisdom. The minute he thinks he has found it, he becomes a fool.
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- A good man says no slowly a wise man says no at once.
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- If there were no fools, how would we recognize the wise
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- He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
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- He is so wise, that he goes upon the ice three days before it freezes
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- Have the wisdom to abandon the values of a time that has passed and pick out the constituents of the future. An environment must be suited to the age and men to their environment.
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- From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of ... silence.
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- From the faults of another, a wise man will correct his own.
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- Every man must act in the rhythm of his time ... such is wisdom.
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- Dip your tongue in wisdom, then give counsel
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- By others faults the wise correct their own.
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- Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.
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- At the base of a monument of a falcon protecting its young at the Air Force Academy. Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge.
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- As to deserving, know that the gift of Heaven is free this gift of Knowledge is so great that no effort whatever could hope to 'deserve' it.
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- If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find knowledge.
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- Physical consciousness is indispensable for the achievement of knowledge.
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- Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.
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- Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.
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- Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.
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- Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance.
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- Knowledge is not what you can remember, but what you cannot forget.
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- Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow.
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- Knowledge is boundless but the capacity of one man is limited.
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- Knowledge becomes power only when we put it into use.
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- In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello In peace, like a wise man, he appropriately prepares for war
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- We mustn't confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with superstitious ignorance.
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- We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
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- True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages.
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- The sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.
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- Wisdom is a comb given to a man once he is bald.
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- Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools
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- Wisdom is like a baobab tree no one individual can embrace it
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- Your body is the temple of knowledge.
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- Penny wise is often pound foolish.
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- Proverbs are the people's wisdom.
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- The way of knowledge is narrow.
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- They who increase knowledge, increase sorrow
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- Understanding develops by degrees.
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- Now is the watchword of the wise.
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- Love is one thing, knowledge is another.
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- Beauty Passes, wisdom remains.
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- Experience is the mother of wisdom.
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- Friendship is love with understanding
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- Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age
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- Knowledge is not necessarily wisdom.
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- A fool wonders. A wise man asks.
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