Explore 53 quotes about Wisdom

Aeschylus. "Agamemnon." The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides, edited and translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 1984.

Disraeli, Benjamin. Sybil, edited by Sheila Smith. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, ch. 5.

The Bible: Authorized King James Version, edited by Robert Carroll and Stephen Prickett. Oxford University Press, 2008. (Ecclesiastus 38:24).

Bradstreet, Anne. "Meditations Divine and Moral." The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Harvard University Press, 1967, st. 12.

Eco, Humberto. The Name of the Rose, translated by William Weaver. HarperVia, 2014.

Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The Tale of Melibee." The Canterbury Tales, edited and translated by Nevill Coghill. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Dickens, Charles. Hard Times, edited by Fred Kaplan. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, bk. 3, ch. 1.

Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 7.

Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

Heraclitus. Fragments, translated by Brooks Haxton. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, translated by Victor Watts. Penguin Classics, 1999, bk. 3, poem 1.

Thales. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Petronius. "The Satyricon." The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius, translated by J. P. Sullivan. Penguin Classics, 1986, sect. 94.