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• The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mistake

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.607, Macmillan

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• Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

  David Zindell

  Hindsight

  "Neverness". Book by David Zindell, 1988.

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• God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

  John Wilmot

  Kings, Promise, Foolish

  John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• A wise man travels to discover himself.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Travel, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Literary essays”

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• However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Buddhist

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• Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch.

  Tara Brown

  Negative, Watches, Fool

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• We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

  Robert Breault

  Regret, Yesterday, Choices

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• So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

  Robert Breault

  Triumph, Surrender, Willing

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• Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path.

  Robert Breault

  Overcoming, Path, Obstacles

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• We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any

  Confucius

  Heart, Men, Mirrors

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• The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

  Laozi

  Men, Competition

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• I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.

  Faramir

  Men, Enough, Peril

  "Fictional character: Faramir". 'The Two Towers' ('The Lord of the Rings'), Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.

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• It is wise to agree that all things are one.

  Heraclitus

  Agree, All Things

  Heraclitus, G. S. Kirk (1954). “Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fool, Dangerous, Wiser

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1705, Random House

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• The least foolish is wise.

  George Herbert

  Foolish

  George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.283

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• Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Fool

  Michel de Montaigne (1811). “The essays of Michael de Montaigne”, p.166

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• There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Wisdom, Men, Intelligence

  "Maxims and Considerations". Book by E. P. Mathers, 1926.

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• Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

  Confucius

  Life, Change, Clever

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Tears, Wealth

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

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• There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark (2013). “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reader's Choice 20th Anniversary Edition: The Chicken Soup for the Soul Stories that Changed Your Lives”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

  Prem Rawat

  Thinking, Problem, Truth Is

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• What you think you become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Brother, Islamic

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• Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Silly, Stupidity, May

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 39e, 1980.

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• He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Wisdom, Inspiration

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.414, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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