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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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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is lifes true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. – Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry
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Franz Grillparzer
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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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Franz Grillparzer
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. – Alan Paton

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Wisdom

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. – Doug Larson

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Wisdom

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free. – Richard V. Allen

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Wisdom

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true. – Lactantius

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There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said “Let us pray,” and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. – Desmond M. Tutu, “Religious Human Rights and the Bible”

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