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«Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.»
«By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.»
Author: Confucius
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Wisdom
| Keywords:
bitterer, bitterest, easiest, experience, imitation, imitations, learn, methods, noblest, reflection, second, third, Third Way, this method, three, wisdom
«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.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Liberty,
Virtue,
Wisdom
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evils, folly, in restraint, madness, restraint, tuition, vice
«Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; Subdue untruthful men by truthfulness; Vanquish an angry man by gentleness; And overcome the evil man by goodness»
Author: Indian Proverb
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Goodness,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
gentleness, subdue, subdues, truthfulness, untruthful, vanquish, vanquishes
«Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.»
«Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| About:
Individuality,
Intelligence,
Pride,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
Columbus, hundreds
«Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom (Job 32:7).»
«Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Dawn,
Men,
Reason,
Sleep,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
go to bed
«Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
courageous, loves, mocking, that is, untroubled, violent, wants, warrior, wisdom, woman
«Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Children,
Experience,
Failure,
Life,
Men,
Relationships,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
discern, worthily
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