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«Wisdom comes by disillusionment.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Disillusionment,
Wisdom
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disillusionment
«Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.»
«Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Ambition,
Sharing,
Virtue,
Wisdom
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employed, enjoyed, labour, obtained
«Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dear for it.»
Author: Dutch Proverb
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Wisdom
«Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next»
«Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Understanding,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
industry, Old Road, travelling
«Wisdom begins in wonder.»
«Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies»
«Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been ro»
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