"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

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"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

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"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."

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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

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"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."

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"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

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"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

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"Deep down in my heart, I know that I know nothing."

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"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Time is a precious gift."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."

"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

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"Deep down in my heart, I know that I know nothing."

"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

"Time is a precious gift."

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."