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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the
embers of action are burnt to ashes." | |
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Bhagavad-Gita
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| "Brute force bereft of wisdom falls to ruin by its own weight. ? Vis
consili expers mole ruit sua." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "Caution is the eldest child of wisdom." | |
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Victor Hugo
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| "Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom
comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the
heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate." | |
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Aeschylus
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| "Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is
ruled?" | |
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Pope Julius III
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| "Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is
governed?" | |
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Count Axel Gustaffson Oxenstierna
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| "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth
understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of
silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold." | |
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The Bible
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| "Head knowledge is good, but heart knowledge is indispensable. The
training of the hands and feet must be added to make a rounded education.
We must all learn these days to become spiritual pioneers if we would save
the world from chaos." | |
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E. V. Hammond
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| "Humanity has passed through a long history of one?sidedness and of a
social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction,
despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our
time must be to open the other eye: to see all?sidedly and wholly, to heal
and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early
wisdom." | |
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Murray Bookchin
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| "I have found that great people do have in common...an immense belief
in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as
well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they
draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity." | |
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Yousef Karsh
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| "I try to get people to see what I have.... When you run a computer
company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams." | |
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Steven Paul (Steve) Jobs
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| "If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep
it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "Intellect is invisible to the man who has none." | |
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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| "It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "It is unwise to be too sure of one"s own wisdom. It is healthy to be
reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." | |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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| "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." | |
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Jimi Hendrix
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| "Nine-tenths of wisdom consists of being wise in time." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal." | |
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Isocrates
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| "The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges; the
eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the
sun." | |
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Walter Savage Landor
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| "The highest form of wisdom is kindness." | |
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Unknown
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| "The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of
mankind, is wisdom." | |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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| "The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least
so." | |
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Nicholas Boileau
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| "To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime
wisdom." | |
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John Milton
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| "To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal;
to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal." | |
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
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| "Wisdom alone is true ambition"s aim Wisdom the source of virtue, and
of fame, Obtained with labor, for mankind employed, And then, when most you
share it, best enjoyed." | |
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Alfred North Whitehead
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| "Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but
themselves." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Wisdom has taught us to be calm and meek, To take one blow, and turn
the other cheek; It is not written what a man shall do If the rude caitiff
smite the other too!" | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." | |
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David Starr Jordan
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| "Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one"s being." | |
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Orison Swett Marden
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| "Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but
men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other
favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed
acquire electric power for a while." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine." | |
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Horace Greeley
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| "Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation." | |
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Sankara Acharya
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| "Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar," | |
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William Wordsworth
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| "Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next." | |
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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| "Wisdom thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten." | |
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Pythagoras
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| "Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them." | |
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Samuel Palmer
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| "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." | |
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