Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter hea

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Dont get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. – Anthony Trollope

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones. – Proverb

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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. – Friedrich Schiller

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