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  • "Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men."
    By: The Talmud
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  • "Who is wise? One who learns from all."
    By: The Talmud
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  • "The end result of wisdom is... good deeds."
    By: The Talmud
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  • "The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it."
    By: Publilius Syrus
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  • "The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it."
    By: Konstantin Stanislavisky
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  • "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."
    By: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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  • "Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know."
    By: Socrates
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  • "True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
    By: Socrates
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  • "The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms."
    By: Socrates
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  • "Some men are wise, and some are otherwise."
    By: Tobias G. Smollett
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  • "Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry."
    By: Samuel Smiles
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  • "The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom."
    By: Samuel Smiles
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  • "Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only."
    By: Samuel Smiles
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  • "The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."
    By: George Bernard Shaw
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  • "To be wise and love exceeds man's might."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "So wise so young, they say, do never live long."
    By: William Shakespeare
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