#wisdom

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom. ↗

— Jean Bodin

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ↗

— George Eliot

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Wind is renewable. Turbines are not. ↗

— Ozzie Zehner

#environment #politics #science #wisdom #science

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#go #instead #lead #leave #may

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. ↗

— Epicurus

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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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Let not thy heart cling to the things which for so short a time deck out thy life. Let him who has, learn to lose, and him who is happy, familiarise himself with what may give pain. ↗

— Friedrich von Schiller

#inspirational #transcience #wisdom #inspirational

Cleverness is not wisdom. ↗

— Euripides

#cleverness