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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. (Tom Kiana)
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom. (Tom Kiana)
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. (Tom Kiana)
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while. (Tom Kiana)
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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. (Tom Kiana)
Life is a festival only to the wise. (Tom Kiana)
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom. (Tom Kiana)
A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. (Tom Kiana)
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God. (Tom Kiana)
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. (Tom Kiana)
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. (Tom Kiana)
Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning. (Tom Kiana)
Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life. (Tom Kiana)
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. (Tom Kiana)
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. (Tom Kiana)
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting. (Tom Kiana)
The doors of wisdom are never shut. (Tom Kiana)
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. (Tom Kiana)
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. (Tom Kiana)
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. (Tom Kiana)
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. (Tom Kiana)
The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool. (Tom Kiana)
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. (Tom Kiana)
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. (Tom Kiana)
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. (Tom Kiana)
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