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• Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise… — Isaac Asimov
• Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. — Charles Caleb Colton
• It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about… — Edmund Gibson
• Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every… — George Santayana
• The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional. — John Marshall
• We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like… — Richard Watson Gilder
• The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your… — William Hazlitt
• Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. — George Santayana
• If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. — William Butler Yeats
• Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application… — Walter Raleigh

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