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Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

- Tryon Edwards

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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)

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We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and trasmit data -- the lowest cognitive form -- has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

- Dee Hock

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Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh....

- Kahlil Gibran

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

- William Butler Yeats

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The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

- Bo Lozoff

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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

- Albert Einstein

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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

- Madame de Stael

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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

- Kahlil Gibran

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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

- Benjamin Franklin

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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

- Benjamin Franklin

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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

- Naguib Mahfouz

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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

- Walter Lippmann

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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

- Buddha

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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

- Abraham Lincoln

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.

- David Starr Jordan

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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

- Plato

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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

- George Santayana

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Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision.

- John Naisbitt

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

- Samuel Johnson

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A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

- Francis Bacon

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

- Thomas Jefferson

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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

- Oprah Winfrey

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