“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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“We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.”
— Dora Russell
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“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
— Francis Bacon
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“Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.”
— Baltasar Gracian
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“Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.”
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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“Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
— Robert H. Schuller
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“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom.”
— Cat Cora
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“Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.”
— Mo Udall
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“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.”
— Thomas Hobbes
Author: Thomas Hobbes
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