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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
Find the journey’s end in every step.
All’s well that ends well.
Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise – even in their own field.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
All is well that ends well
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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.
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
Every wise man lives in an observatory.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
What is it to be wise?’Tis but to know how little can be known,To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.
Years teach us more than books.
