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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. ↗

— William Osler

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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. ↗

— Plato

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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. ↗

— Plato

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. ↗

— Plautus

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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. ↗

— Plato

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. ↗

— Plautus

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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. ↗

— Plutarch

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