"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."
-Joseph Roux
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"Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.“
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"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."
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"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."
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"Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions."
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"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
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-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."
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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."
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
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