All quotes
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The wise speak only of what they know. — J.R.R. Tolkien（Attribution unverified） |
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. — William Shakespeare（Attribution unverified） |
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot. — Albert Einstein（Attribution unverified） |
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Knowledge is not wisdom, unless used wisely. — J.D. Anderson（Attribution unverified） |
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau（Attribution unverified） |
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The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. — Rudyard Kipling（Attribution unverified） |
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. — Walter Lippman（Attribution unverified） |
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. — Calvin Coolidge（Attribution unverified） |
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. — Henry Mencken（Attribution unverified） |
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. — Marcel Proust（Attribution unverified） |
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The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man. — Marcus Aurelius（Attribution unverified） |
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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. — Oscar Wilde（Attribution unverified） |
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A word to the wise is infuriating. — Hunter S. Thompson（Attribution unverified） |
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. — Hunter S. Thompson（Attribution unverified） |
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No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. — Calvin Coolidge（Attribution unverified） |
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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. — Mark Twain（Attribution unverified） |
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I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. — Frank Moore Colby（Attribution unverified） |
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Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. — William Shakespeare（Attribution unverified） |
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Men are born to succeed, not fail. — Henry Thoreau（Attribution unverified） |
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Don't confuse having a career with having a life. — Hillary Clinton（Attribution unverified） |