#wisdom

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

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You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. ↗

— Edward Young

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I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity. ↗

— Peter Hammill

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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. ↗

— William Cowper

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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. ↗

— George William Curtis

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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. ↗

— William Dunbar

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It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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