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" Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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" Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. "

" Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. "

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" I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. "

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" Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business. "

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" Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. "

" Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. "

" It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. "

" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "

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" Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" You can observe a lot by watching. "

" Let deeds match words. "

" You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. "

" All wisdom does not reside in Delhi. "

" There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together. "

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" What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. "

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" The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. "

" A mistake is simply another way of doing things. "

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" Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. "

Saint Augustine

" Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. "

" Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. "

" Be as you wish to seem. "

" My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better. "

" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "

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" O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! "

" Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well. "

" Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. "

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