Wisdom Quotes

The best minds across centuries have wrestled with what it means to be wise. These quotes capture their hard-won insights.

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"A measurement dismissed is knowledge abandoned."
Hipparchus
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"Those who see only what they expect to see are blind to what is actually there."
Hipparchus
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"To doubt is human; to doubt carefully and methodically is divine."
Hipparchus
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"In the cycles of heavenly bodies, we learn that return is not always repetition."
Hipparchus
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"To study the stars is to study the limits and possibilities of human knowledge in one gesture."
Hipparchus
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"Wherefore I say that nothing should be believed except what is in accordance with reason."
Galen
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"It is not enough to know what you should do; you must also know why you should do it."
Galen
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"In medicine, as in life, prognosis is everything."
Galen
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"Reason should govern all our actions."
Galen
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"The physician must be a philosopher first."
Galen
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"Through experience comes understanding."
Galen
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"Observation without reason is merely collection."
Galen
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"In every disease, there is a lesson to be learned."
Galen
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"Reason is the highest faculty of man."
Galen
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"The mind that questions is the mind that grows."
Galen
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"True healing comes from understanding the root cause."
Galen
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"Knowledge without wisdom is like a sword in the hand of a fool."
Galen
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"To understand is to have the power to change."
Galen
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"The physician who learns from every patient becomes wise."
Galen
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"Know thyself."
Xenophon
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"Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know."
Xenophon
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"The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do."
Xenophon
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"He is a wise man who speaks little and acts much."
Xenophon
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"The soul is not healed by money."
Xenophon
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"A man of wisdom is one who listens more than he speaks."
Xenophon
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"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
Xenophon
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"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
Hippocrates
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"A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal of a god."
Hippocrates
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"It is better to prevent than to treat."
Hippocrates
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"The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings."
Hippocrates