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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. – Francis Bacon

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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?. – Francis Bacon

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Problems
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Francis Bacon
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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Thought
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Francis Bacon
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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. – Mary Wilson Little

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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? – Norman Douglas

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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. – Harry Dean Stanton

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The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. – Joseph Butler

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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. – Charles Bukowski

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. – C.S. Lewis

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Listening to my regular favourites – Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on – I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world. – Jane Asher

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