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"If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased."
Janet Morris
Wisdom, Mercy, Redemption
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"Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.”
Janet Morris
Patience, Wisdom, Logic, Strategy
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Mark Twain
Wisdom
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A nation's treasure is its scholars.
Wisdom
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Wisdom
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A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
Wisdom
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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Wisdom
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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Helen Rowland
Wisdom
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber
Wisdom
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Action should culminate in wisdom.
Wisdom
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides
Wisdom
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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Gautama Buddha
Wisdom
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom
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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Wisdom
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Better to get wisdom than gold.
Wisdom
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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. -- Proverbs 3:13-15
Wisdom
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By others faults the wise correct their own.
Wisdom
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Wisdom
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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
Wisdom
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Wisdom
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom
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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Wisdom
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Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Wisdom
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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clémenceau
Wisdom
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
Wisdom
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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
Gautama Buddha
Wisdom
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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
Francis Bacon
Wisdom
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
Thomas Carlyle
Wisdom
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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.
Wisdom
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Voltaire
Wisdom
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
Samuel Johnson
Wisdom
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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Wisdom
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He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
Wisdom
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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
Epictetus
Wisdom
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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
Hermann Hesse
Wisdom
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia
Wisdom
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If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
Wisdom
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In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Wisdom
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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom
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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Wisdom
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
Wisdom
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil Gibran
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Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
Hermann Hesse
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. -- 1 Corinthians 3:18-19
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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is a festival only to the wise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom
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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
Andrew Young
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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.
Wisdom
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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt Brecht
Wisdom
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
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No man is wise enough by himself.
Plautus
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken
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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
Cyril Connolly
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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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.
Samuel Smiles
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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
Science, Wisdom
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
Wisdom
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So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
William Shakespeare
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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
Josh Billings
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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes
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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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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
John Stuart Mill
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Wisdom
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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates
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The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. -- Proverbs 15: 31
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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
Samuel Smiles
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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake
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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it
Konstantin Stanislavski
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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
George Bernard Shaw
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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. -- Psalms 19:7
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.
Orison Swett Marden
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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. -- Ecclesiasticus 38:25
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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.
Eric Hoffer
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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
Publilius Syrus
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The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.
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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Marcus Aurelius
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.
Wisdom
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