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| Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequently. | | Adolf Hitler | |
| Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
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| Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom (Job 32:7). | | Bible | |
| Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. | | Jean Giraudoux | |
| Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed. | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. | | Karl Kraus | |
| Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life. | | Bertrand Russell | |
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| For wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her | | Bible | |
| Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. | | William Saroyan | |
| Great men are not always wise | | Bible | |
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| He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. | | Epictetus | |
| He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower. | | Mary Howitt | |
| He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty | | Samuel Johnson | |
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