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Of course, when you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill

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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Aesop

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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Buddha

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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

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Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Euripides

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

Yoko Ono

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Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Morihei Ueshiba

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You can be very wild and still be very wise.

Yoko Ono

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

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Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Greg Anderson

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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin

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Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom — and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Benjamin Franklin

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Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything — even mountains, rivers, plants and trees — should be your teacher.

Morihei Ueshiba

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