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Wisdom Quotes

"There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty"

"Beware the man of a single book."

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."

"Supreme excellence lies in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues"

"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress"

"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair"

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts"

"A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas"

"You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long time"

"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"He that hath light may hide it"

"The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

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