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- By words the mind is winged.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)
- Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.
- Overlung
- To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
- South
- Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
- Author Unknown
- The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
- Author Unknown
- If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
- Author Unknown
- 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)
- 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
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