“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
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“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
“No man was ever wise by chance.”
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.”
“Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.”
“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”
“The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.”
“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”
“Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.”
“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.”
“Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.”
“It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.”
“Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.”
“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”
“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”
“We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.”
“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.”
“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”
“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
“Rightly defined, philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.”