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  • "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
    By: Unknown
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  • "Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly."
    By: Unknown
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  • "The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy."
    By: Unknown
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  • "Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone."
    By: Unknown
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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."
    By: Unknown
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  • "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected."
    By: Unknown
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  • "All is not gold that glitters, but it is a wise child that keeps the stopper in his bottle of testing acid."
    By: Unknown
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  • "Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth."
    By: Unknown
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  • "I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
    By: Unknown
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  • "It is not all gold that glareth."
    By: Unknown
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  • "Prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom s root."
    By: Unknown
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  • "Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto."
    By: Unknown
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  • "Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen."
    By: Unknown
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  • "The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education."
    By: Unknown
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  • "He that is rich is wise."
    By: Unknown
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