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I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

by Martin Sheen (Actor, American , born in 1940) keywords: conscientious, golfer, honesty, stroke , virtue

William Tecumseh Sherman

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

by William Tecumseh Sherman (Soldier , born in 1970) keywords: dread, fear, rebels, whip , wisdom

Tobias Smollett

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

by Tobias Smollett (Writer, Scottish , born in 1721) keywords: folks, otherwise, some , wise

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

by Socrates (Philosopher , Greek) keywords: know, knowing, nothing, only, true , wisdom

Wisdom begins in wonder.

by Socrates (Philosopher , Greek) keywords: begins, wisdom , wonder

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

by Sophocles (Playwright , Greek) keywords: happiness, part, supreme , wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

by Sophocles (Playwright , Greek) keywords: any, wealth , wisdom

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Activist, American , born in 1970) keywords: happiest, holiest, idea, marriages, principle, reform, triumph , wedded

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

by Sara Teasdale (Author, American , born in 1884) keywords: calm, coldly, exchange, eyes, given, grown, life, look, taken, truth, very, will, wise , youth

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

by Alfred Lord Tennyson (Poet, English , born in 1809) keywords: comes, knowledge, lingers , wisdom

Henry David Thoreau

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: heresy, man, once, some, wisdom, wise , worldly

Henry David Thoreau

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: characteristic, desperate, things , wisdom

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

by Voltaire (Writer, French , born in 1970) keywords: sad, severe , wise

Wisdom begins at the end.

by Daniel Webster (Statesman, American , born in 1782) keywords: begins, end , wisdom

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

by Bruce Willis (Actor, American , born in 1955) keywords: certainly, past, repeat , undo

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

by Tom Wilson (Cartoonist, American , born in 1931) keywords: age, come, itself, just, necessarily, shows, sometimes, up , wisdom

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

by Oprah Winfrey (Entertainer, American , born in 1954) keywords: into, turn, wisdom, wounds , your

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

by Herman Wouk (Novelist, American , born in 1915) keywords: bred, gap, illusion, reality , wish

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

by Xenophanes (Philosopher , Greek) keywords: man, recognize , wise

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

by Emile Zola (Novelist, French , born in 1840) keywords: bury, grow , truth

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