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  • “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” -- Confucius

  • “Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.” -- Aesop

  • “It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.” -- Aeschylus

  • “To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.” -- Euripides

  • “There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.” -- Democritus

  • “Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.” -- Lao-Tzu

  • “Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.” -- Cato

  • “And in knowing that you know nothing, makes you the smartest of all.” -- Socrates

  • “Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” -- Leonardo da Vinci

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

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