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Wisdom Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
- It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
- Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid…
- The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.
- Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
- One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
More Wisdom Quotes
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
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- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold