#wisdom

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

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You don't need a big pen to write a tall story ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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When it comes to words Mamma says, "If they are not good, then maybe they should not be said. ↗

— Annette Bridges

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Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting. ↗

— Ptahhotep

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I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along. ↗

— C.P. Snow

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You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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