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Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.


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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.


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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.


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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.


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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.


William James
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When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
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By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
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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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Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.


Eckhart Tolle
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?


Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
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That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.


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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.


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If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.


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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.


Winston Churchill
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Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.


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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.


Francis Bacon
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