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The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
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Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC)
That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it.
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Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!
Thou soul is the eternity of thought!
That giv'st to forms and images a breath
And everlasting motion! Not in vain
By day or star-light thus from by first dawn
Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me
The passions that build up our human soul,
Not with the mean and vulgar works of man,
But with high objects, with enduring things,
With life and nature, purifying thus
The elements of feeling and of thought,
And sanctifying, by such discipline
Both pain and fear, until we recognize
A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
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William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), A Tale of Two Cities
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
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Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
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