5896 | Speak the truth, for this alone deifies man [Pythagoras, by Porphyry] |
7990 | Serene wisdom is freedom from ties, and indifference to fortune [Anon (Bhag)] |
13786 | Wisdom is called 'beautiful', because it performs fine works [Plato] |
1922 | Spiritual qualities only become advantageous with the growth of wisdom [Plato] |
354 | Wisdom makes virtue and true goodness possible [Plato] |
14179 | The finest branch of wisdom is justice and moderation in ordering states and families [Plato] |
23890 | For Plato true wisdom is supernatural [Plato, by Weil] |
78 | Wisdom is scientific and intuitive knowledge of what is by nature most precious [Aristotle] |
5248 | Wisdom does not study happiness, because it is not concerned with processes [Aristotle] |
548 | Knowledge chosen for its own sake, rather than for results, is wisdom [Aristotle] |
11228 | Wisdom seeks explanations, causes, and reasons why things are as they are [Aristotle, by Politis] |
19693 | There is practical wisdom (for action), and theoretical wisdom (for deep understanding) [Aristotle, by Whitcomb] |
7278 | Words of wisdom are precise and clear [Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)] |
9199 | Wisdom for one instant is as good as wisdom for eternity [Chrysippus] |
21405 | Cicero sees wisdom in terms of knowledge, but earlier Stoics saw it as moral [Cicero, by Long] |
13310 | Wisdom does not lie in books, and unread people can also become wise [Seneca] |
7911 | Theory vanishes when one has obtained wisdom [Rahulabhadra] |
21875 | The wisdom of a free man is a meditation on life, not on death [Spinoza] |
17230 | If we are not wholly wise, we should live by good rules and maxims [Spinoza] |
19396 | Wisdom is knowing all of the sciences, and their application [Leibniz] |
19336 | Wisdom involves the desire to achieve perfection [Leibniz] |
12926 | Wisdom is the science of happiness [Leibniz] |
5540 | Cleverness is shown in knowing what can reasonably be asked [Kant] |
21422 | Moral self-knowledge is the beginning of all human wisdom [Kant] |
6200 | Wisdom is knowing the highest good, and conforming the will to it [Kant] |
21979 | Wisdom emerges at the end of a process [Hegel] |
14857 | The highest wisdom has the guise of simplicity [Nietzsche] |
14888 | Wisdom prevents us from being ruled by the moment [Nietzsche] |
22659 | It is wisdom to believe what you desire, because belief is needed to achieve it [James] |
21584 | A sense of timelessness is essential to wisdom [Russell] |
22496 | Wisdom only implies the knowledge achievable in any normal lifetime [Foot] |
22396 | We take courage, temperance, wisdom and justice as moral, but Aristotle takes wisdom as intellectual [Foot] |
7623 | For ancient Greeks being wise was an ethical value [Putnam] |
23948 | Wisdom needs both thought and passion, with each reflecting on the other [Solomon] |
5333 | Philosophy needs wisdom about who we are, as well as how we ought to be [Flanagan] |
19735 | Wisdom has a higher value than understanding, which has a higher value than knowledge [Greco] |
20186 | Unlike knowledge, wisdom cannot be misused [Zagzebski] |