#wisdom

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ↗

— Henry Ford

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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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There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. ↗

— Robert Frost

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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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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

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