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«A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.»
Author: Gian Carlo Menotti | About: Wisdom | Keywords: approximate, approximates, calculate, depth
«A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.»
Author: Louis L'Amour | About: Wisdom | Keywords: fights
«A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable»
Author: Richard Byrd | About: Wisdom | Keywords: attain, indispensable, recognizes
«A wise man changes his mind, a fool never»
Author: Spanish Proverb | About: Change, Mind, Wisdom | Keywords: fool, wise, wise man
«A prudent question is one half of wisdom.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | About: Questioning, Wisdom | Keywords: One half, prudent
«A short saying oft contains much wisdom»
Author: Sophocles | About: Wisdom | Keywords: contains, oft
«A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.»
Author: Buddha | About: Men, Wisdom | Keywords: act, act as, As If, escapes, illusion, real, Real Men, recognizing, suffering, The Suffering, wise man
«A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.»
Author: Proverb | About: Wisdom | Keywords: soup, spoon
«A man is a God in ruins.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Men, Wisdom | Keywords: ruins
«A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Poetry, Wisdom | Keywords: delight, poem
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