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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
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Saint Augustine
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
Aldous Huxley
"The doors of wisdom are never shut."
Benjamin Franklin
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."
Benjamin Franklin
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
"The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces."
Rudyard Kipling
"The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work."
Elbert Hubbard
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
Henry Mencken
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Socrates
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
Oscar Wilde
"The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
Baltasar Gracian
"The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man."
Marcus Aurelius
"The wise speak only of what they know."
J.R.R. Tolkien
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates."
Henry Thoreau
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
Socrates
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
George Bernard Shaw
"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
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