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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” — Henry Ford

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“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” — H. L. Mencken

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