#wisdo

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. ↗

— Solon

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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. ↗

— Robert South

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If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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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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I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. ↗

— Hippolyte Taine

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Wisdom is found only in truth. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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