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Quote by Stephen Vincent Benet

“We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.”

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Stephen Vincent Benet was an American poet, novelist, and playwright. Known for his rich imagination and profound emotional depth, his works include notable poems and novels such as 'John Brown's Body' and 'America'. more

“We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.”

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Author:Socrates

“He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.”

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Author:Rupert Brooke

“Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.”

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Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.”

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Author:Alan Dershowitz

“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.”

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Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

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