Chesterfield, Lord
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
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Chinese Proverb
The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship.
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Anacharsis
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
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Douglas, Norman
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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Euripides
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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James, William
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
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Santayana, George
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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Talmud, The
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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Taylor, Jeremy
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
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Teasdale, Sara
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
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Wordsworth, William
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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