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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.
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Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
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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.
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Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
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Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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