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• “It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.” -- Carl von Clausewitz
  
  
• “A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.” -- David Hume
  
  
• “A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.” -- Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• “He is a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.” -- Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• “To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.” -- Samuel Johnson
  
  
• “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” -- Anne Bradstreet
  
  
• “Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.” -- Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
  
   British philosopher. From the dedication, in De Cive (1642)
  
  
• “Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.” -- Francis Hutcheson
  
   Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, I. v.
  
  
• “Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.” -- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  
  
• “To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  

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