“The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.”
— Edward Young
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We are drowning in information, while starving
“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
— E. O. Wilson
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In justice to human society it may
“In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.”
— Ezra Stiles
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Any successful nominee should possess both the
“Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.”
— Bennie Thompson
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Education makes us more stupid than the
“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
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There are three methods to gaining wisdom.
“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.”
— Confucius
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”
— Aeschylus
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If you call failures experiments, you can
“If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.”
— Mason Cooley
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.
“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
— Hermann Hesse
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom
“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
— George Eliot
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He who lives by the crystal ball
“He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.”
— Edgar R. Fiedler
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