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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Wise men still seek Him today.
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Action should culminate in wisdom.
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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.
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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.
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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you stemma to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]
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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]
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He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]
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In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.
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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]
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So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]
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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.
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Better to get wisdom than gold.
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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]
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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.
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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.
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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.
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All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
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Life is a festival only to the wise.
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
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A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.