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| There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear | | Edmund Burke | |
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| This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be. | | Nicholas Murray Butler | |
| Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry. | | Euripides | |
| Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, There is no sterner moralist than Pleasure | | Lord Byron | |
| Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches. | | Bible | |
| To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
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| True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model | | Seneca | |
| We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. | | Michel de Montaigne | |
| We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. | | Marcel Proust | |
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