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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Wisdom |
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Quotes By subject - Starting with W - Wisdom
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Author: Mark Twain
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Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
Author: Publilius Syrus
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Man and Superman" (1903), act I
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Author: Khalil Gibran
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Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
Author: Publilius Syrus
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Author: Albert Einstein
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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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