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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise,
to seem foolish.
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-Aeschylus
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The sum of all wisdom: Silence.
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-Walter Bauer
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools
from wise men.
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-Marius Portius Cato
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what
the world calls wisdom.
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-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Knowledge is proud that he has learned so
much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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-William Cowper
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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-Benjamin Disraeli
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To my extreme mortification, I grow wiser
every day.
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-George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Nobody can be so amazingly arrogant as a young
man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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-Sydney J. Harris
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Many of the insights of the saint stem from
his experience as a sinner.
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-Eric Hoffer
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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom
another.
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-Juvenal
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*[T]he wise man will
surely desire to remain always with one who is better than himself.
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-The character Phaedo quoting Cebes, in Plato's
Phaedo
62e
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Observation, and not old age, brings wisdom.
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-Unknown
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The real fun of living wisely is that you
get to be smug about it.
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-Calvin, a character in Bill Watterston's
comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes
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