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Sophocles:
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
 
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Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.



Stephen Vincent Benét:
 
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.



Sydney J. Harris:
 
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
 
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Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
 
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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.



Thomas Jefferson:
 
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
 
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He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
 
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
 
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These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
 
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
 
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
 
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
 
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Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
 
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
 
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by
 
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
 
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