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2183 E Sam Levenson It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
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3475 E Immanuel Kant Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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4515 E Reinhold Niebuhr Grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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17203 E Walter Lippmann We are unsettled to the very roots of our being. There isn't a human relation, whether of parent and child, husband and wife, worker and employer, that doesn't move in a strange direction. We don't know how to behave when personal contact and eternal authority have disappeared. There are no precedents to guide us, no wisdom that wasn't made for a simpler age. We have changed our environment faster than we can change ourselves.
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Wisdom
4184 E Emil Cioran We smile, because no answer is conceivable, because the answer would be even more meaningless than the question.
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Wisdom
4242 E Joseph Joubert Wisdom is the strength of the weak.
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7757 E William James The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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2668 E Albert Einstein Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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9863 E Gregory Bateson Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.
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Wisdom
4235 E Joseph Joubert To seek wisdom rather than truth. It is more within our grasp.
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4298 E George Bernard Shaw Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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2475 E Philip Stanhope (Lord Chesterfield) Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
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2374 E Michel de Montaigne We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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4522 E Naguib Mahfouz You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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17195 E Walter Lippmann It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Wisdom