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Quote by Franz Grillparzer
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is lik

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. – Franz Grillparzer

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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. – Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail. – Franz Grillparzer

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Knowledge
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses. – Franz Grillparzer

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Knowledge
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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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Wisdom

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove ones self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Wisdom

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. – Michel de Montaigne

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Wisdom

I actually dont think that Im that much smarter than anybody else. Its just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think thats wisdom. – Benjamin Carson

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Wisdom

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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. – G. W. F. Hegel

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What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see. – Naguib Mahfouz

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