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• "We live and learn, but not the wiser grow."
  By: John Pomfret
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• "Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty."
  By: Plutarch
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• "No one is wise at all times. [Lat., Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit.]"
  By: Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus), Historia Naturalis (VII, 41, 2)
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• "No man is wise enough by himself. [Lat., Nemo solus satis sapit.]"
  By: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Miles Gloriosus (III, 3, 12)
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• "He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]"
  By: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Mercator (IV, 7, 40)
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• "Wisdom alone is a science of other sciences and of itself."
  By: Plato (originally Aristocles}
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• "The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect."
  By: Plato (originally Aristocles}
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• "When swelling buds their od'rous foliage shed, And gently harden into fruit, the wise Spare not the little offsprings, if they grow Redundant."
  By: John Philips, Cider (bk. I)
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• "In strictness of language there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom; wisdom always supposing action, and action directed by it."
  By: William Paley, Archdeacon of Saragossa
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• "Look about, my son, and see how little wisdom it takes to govern the world."
  By: Count Axel von Oxenstierna (Oxenstjerna or Oxenstiern)
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• "Some men never spake a wise word, yet doe wisely; some on the other side doe never a wise deed, and yet speake wisely."
  By: Sir Thomas Overbury, Crumms fal'n from King James Talk, in "Works"
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• "I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth, The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best;" The Spartan Chilo, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase confessed. Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command," "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylenes' strand; Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life," And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife;" Milesian Thales urged that "None should e'er a surety be;" Few were their words, but if you look, you'll much in little see."
  By: Old Greek Saying
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• "Seven wise men on an old black settle, Seven wise men of the Mermaid Inn, Ringing blades of the one right metal, What is the best that a blade can win?"
  By: Alfred Noyes, Tales of The Mermaid Tavern (II)
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• "Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge."
  By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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• "Wisdom is everlasting; early or late we apprehend her still the same."
  By: Frederic William Henry Myers
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• "For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit."
  By: William Mountford (1)
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