#wisdom

Honesty is the best policy. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. ↗

— Anatole France

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In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God. ↗

— Derek Luke

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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. ↗

— George MacDonald

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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. ↗

— James Madison

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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. ↗

— Menander

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