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Quotations by Subject: Wisdom (28 quotes)

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.: Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005
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A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 4
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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act III, sc. 1
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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act III, sc. 1
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.: Whitney Griswold, Address to students at Phillips Academy, 1952
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
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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 (1806 - 1873)
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.: John Patrick, The Teahouse of the August moon, Act I, scene I, 1957
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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.: Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

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