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We all possess wisdom that we lack the strength properly to enact in our lives.

—Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists

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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

—Abba Eban

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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

—George Orwell

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How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

—Margaret Atwood

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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

—Philip G. Hamerton

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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

—H. L. Mencken

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

—Francis Bacon

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

—Cullen Hightower

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

—Jonathan Swift

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Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

—Wilson Mizner

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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

—Charles Mackay

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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

—Niels Bohr

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If the solution to a problem of absolute disagreement extends to a call for bloodshed, then neither party has demonstrated the intelligence to formulate the question properly.

—John Steinbeck

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