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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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 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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“Silence is a source of great strength.”
— Lao Tzu
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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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“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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“A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
— Socrates
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“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
— Francis Bacon
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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 older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
— H. L. Mencken
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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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