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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.
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The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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