Euripides
Playwright
"Silence is true wisdom's best reply."
True Wisdom quotes
True Wisdom
12 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Socrates
Philosopher
"The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance."
Gore Vidal
Writer, Essayist, Playwright
"True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know."
Socrates
Philosopher
"Wisdom is knowing what you don't know."
Confucius
Philosopher
"True wisdom is knowing what you don't know"
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"The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing."
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"True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination."
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"True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do"
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"True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination."
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"If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true."
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