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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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Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

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It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. ↗

— James Richardson

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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. ↗

— Buddha

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

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Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. ↗

— William Cowper

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Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. ↗

— George Crabbe

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What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom. ↗

— Marcia Cross

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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. ↗