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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

 

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

 

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.

 

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

 

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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.

 

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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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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

 

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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.


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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

 

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The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

 

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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

 

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Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

 

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If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

 

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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

 

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But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.

 

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

 

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

 

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.

 

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

 

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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.



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