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- The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- Water is the only drink for a wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
- Samuel Smiles
- Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.
- Bible, Proverbs, 4:7
- Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
- Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
- Everyone is wise until he speaks.
- Irish Proverb
- Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.
- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
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