William Shakespeare Wisdom Quotes

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

- William Shakespeare

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other side

- William Shakespeare

Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

- William Shakespeare

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad

- William Shakespeare

'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.

- William Shakespeare

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

- William Shakespeare

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

- William Shakespeare

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

- William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

- William Shakespeare

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

- Oprah Winfrey

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it

- Stephen Covey

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit

- Baltasar Gracian

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

- William Cowper

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.

- Anonymous

Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.

- Anthony Douglas Williams

The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

- Aristotle

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

- Miles Kington