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"You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact."
- Harry Dean Stanton
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"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."
- Aesop
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"Cleverness is not wisdom."
- Euripides
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"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
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"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."
- Wilson Mizner
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"Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance."
- Saadi
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"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
- Carl Sandburg
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"He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise."
- Quintus Ennius
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"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."
- Abigail Van Buren
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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
- Henry David Thoreau
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+10 quotes please!