Samuel Johnson's Quote - To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is f

Quote by Samuel Johnson

To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is f

To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly. – Samuel Johnson

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You cant be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute whos for you and whos against you. – Samuel Johnson

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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. – Samuel Johnson

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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson

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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. – Joseph Stiglitz

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Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. – Zen Proverb

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But I do think its important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books. – China Mieville

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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I dont have. – Laura Marling

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Beauty is only skin deep. – Thomas Overbury

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Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. – Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom, 1941

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Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry. – Oliver Cromwell

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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance. – Bertrand Russell

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