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It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
Author: A.A. Hodge
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Every wise man lives in an observatory.
Author: Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
Author: Bill Veeck
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Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant.
Author: Carrie Latet
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There is a wisdom of the head, and… a wisdom of the heart.
Author: Charles Dickens
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One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.
Author: Edward C. Steadman
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The child, offered the mother’s breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom’s copious breasts You’ll drink each day with greater zest.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
Author: John Buchan
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There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.
Author: Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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[It was] an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.
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[On doing another talk show:] It would be like going back to a relationship. Ever do that? You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!
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[The argument of Alcidamas:] Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.
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| He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
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3 grand keys 2 happiness in dis life r sumthing 2 do, sum thing 2 love, & sum thing 2 hope for.
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that cetainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that.
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A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown
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A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.
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A foolish man proclaimeth his qualifications; a wise man keepeth them secret within himself. Saskya Pandita quotes
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A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, ‘I take thee to be my wedded husband,’ really mean, ‘I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.
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