"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
-Socrates
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"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
-Socrates
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"Wisdom begins in wonder."
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
-Socrates
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"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher."
-Socrates
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"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
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"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."
-Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
-Lord John Russell
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"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
-Francis Hutcheson
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
-Stanford Moore
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"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
-Nina Totenberg
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
-John Bigelow
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