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Wisdom Quotes
"Intelligence is naked without wisdom. Wisdom dresses interestingly with intelligence."
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"A proverb is much matter distilled into few words."
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"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."
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"The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism."
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"Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough."
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"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
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"I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity."
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"What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation."
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"Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not."
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"That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there."
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"Only the foolish insist on making their own mistakes when they can learn from the mistakes of others. Only the wise will understand that success leaves clues, and those clues are there for you to use to achieve great things."
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"There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world."
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"Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts."
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"A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village, the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age."
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"If one bite fills you, you don't need two."
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"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."
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"Don't burn your bridges until you build better ones."
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"It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things."
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"Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort."
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"When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it."
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"You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact."
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"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
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"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
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"Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy."
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"Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy."
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"Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake."
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"He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed."
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"Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom."
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"It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."
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"Delay is not denial.There is a waiting time."
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