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Georg C Lichtenberg
: We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
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Yiddish Proverb :
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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Ben Jonson :
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Sophocles :
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
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John King Fairbank :
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The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.
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William Hazlitt :
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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Jewish Proverb :
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Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
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Thomas Hobbes :
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
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Irish Proverb :
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Everyone is wise until he speaks.
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Georg C Lichtenberg:
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
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Georg C Lichtenberg:
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything — and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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