The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.
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