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A nation's treasure is its scholars.
-Yiddish Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
-Chinese Proverb
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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
-Chinese Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
-Chinese Proverb
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Wise care keeps what it has gained.
-Danish proverb
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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
-African Proverb
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You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice.
-Japanese Proverb
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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
-Proverb
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By others faults the wise correct their own.
-Proverb
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.
-Proverb
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Everyone is wise until he speaks.
-Proverb
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He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
-Proverb
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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
-Proverb
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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
-Proverb
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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
-James Truslow Adams
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
-Aristophanes
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
-Isaac Asimov
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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
-Marcus Aurelius
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
-Rabbi Ben Azai
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
-Francis Bacon
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
-Matsuo Basho
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Wise men still seek Him today.
-Dan Bell
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Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
-Bhagavad Gita
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Action should culminate in wisdom.
-Bhagavad Gita
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Books about Wisdom
