#wisdom

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent. ↗

— Dick Cheney

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If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. ↗

— John Updike

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Forget the place you're trying to get to and see the beauty in right now... ↗

— Evanescence

#life #wisdom #beauty

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. ↗

— George William Curtis

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Man is only great when he acts from passion. ↗

— 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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