“Knowledge comes by taking things apart, but wisdom comes by putting things together.”
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“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
“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.”
“You can always tell someone to go to Hell tomorrow.”
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“Silence is a source of great strength.”
“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.”
“I start where the last man left off.”
“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.”
“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”
“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”
“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”
“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.”
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.”
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
“A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”