712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Knowledge comes by taking things apart, but wisdom comes by putting things together.” — John A. Morrison

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“I start where the last man left off.” — Thomas Edison

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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“You can always tell someone to go to Hell tomorrow.” — Charlie Munger

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“Silence is a source of great strength.” — Lao Tzu

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“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.” — Francis Bacon

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“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“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.” — Buddha

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“It is impossible to love and to be wise.” — Francis Bacon

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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.” — Sigmund Freud

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“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.” — Aristotle

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“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.” — Alfred Tennyson

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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.” — Confucius

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“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.” — Tom Wilson

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“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.” — Francis Bacon

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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.” — Confucius

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“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“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.” — Buddha

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“A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.” — Sophocles

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“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” — Socrates

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“Man is only great when he acts from passion.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates

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