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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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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Florence Nightingale
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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Wise men learn many things from their enemies.
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Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
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Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
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