Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

—James Boswell

About James Boswell

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James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (; 29 October 1740 (N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest...

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

—James Boswell

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

—Immanuel Kant

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything—and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

—George Santayana

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

—Edmund Burke

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