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Wisdom Quotes

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes"

"It is not enough to possess wisdom; it should be used."

"Necessity never made a good bargain."

"Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction No read in order to live"

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision"

"It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place"

"Cleverness is not wisdom"

"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

"Every wise, just, and fortunate man that ever existed owed his greatness, in the first place, to the universal favor of fortune; and in the second, to his own peculiar diligence and virtue"

"Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption."

"Truth is only one way of appealing to reality"

"All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing. Yes, I think it was the happiest day of my life."

"It is nought good a sleping hound to wake"

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live"

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