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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom …

13 Oct , 2011  

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity. Great short quote and quotation by: Cato the Elder , Roman orator & politician (234 BC – 149 BC)

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Marilyn vos Savant

To acquire knowledge, one must stud…

13 Oct , 2011  

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Great short quote and quotation by: Marilyn vos Savant ,

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To be a philosopher is not merely t…

13 Oct , 2011  

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry David Thoreau , US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

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Horace, Epistles

To flee vice is the beginning of vi…

13 Oct , 2011  

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Great short quote and quotation by: Horace, Epistles , Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC – 8 BC)

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Elbert Hubbard

To know when to be generous and whe…

13 Oct , 2011  

To know when to be generous and when to be firm — this is wisdom. Great short quote and quotation by: Elbert Hubbard , US author (1856 – 1915)

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Plutarch

To make no mistakes is not in the p…

13 Oct , 2011  

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Great short quote and quotation by: Plutarch , Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD – 120 AD)

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To wisdom belongs the intellectual …

13 Oct , 2011  

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. Great short quote and quotation by: Saint Augustine , Carthaginian author, saint, & church father (354 AD – 430 AD)

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Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338

True wisdom is seeing what is benef…

13 Oct , 2011  

True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them. Great short quote and quotation by: Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book “Apocalypse Explained” #338 , […]

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Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo"

Until divinity decides to reveal th…

9 Jul , 2011  

Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexandre Dumas, Translation from “The Count of Monte Cristo” , French dramatist & novelist (1802 – 1870)

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We should be careful to get out of …

15 Feb , 2011  

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it–and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again–and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a […]

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Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935

We thought, because we had power, w…

15 Feb , 2011  

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Great short quote and quotation by: Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935 , US poet & short story author (1898 – 1943)

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What is all wisdom save a collectio…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong. Great short quote and quotation by: Norman Douglas ,

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