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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Unpopular Essays, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1950).
- Fear
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Mortals and Others (1931-35)
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), p. 167
- Time
Love is wise – Hatred is foolish.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Interview, Face to Face, BBC (1959)
- Love
Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand.
George Santayana1863–1952The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911), p. 50
The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
ESE. F. Schumacher1911–1977Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973), p. 35.
- Intelligence
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 164
- Advice
- Charity
Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLVII: On master and slave, Line 11
- Advice
- Morality
The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXX: On the proper time to slip the cable, Line 4.
- Life & Death
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (1599–1600), Act V, scene iIn context
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (1600–1), Act I, scene iii.In context
- Advice
- Talking
Do not as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst like a puff’d and reckless libertine
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by OpheliaIn context
- Advice
- Morality
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by PoloniusIn context
- Advice
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by PoloniusIn context
Brevity is the soul of wit
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act II, Scene II, spoken by PoloniusIn context
- Talking