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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitte

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. – Anne Bradstreet

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The greatest wisdom is to realize ones lack of it. – Constantin Stanislavski

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It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. – Freeman Dyson

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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. – Gabriel Marcel

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To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. – Jose Bergamin

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