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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.Latin
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.Bible, Proverbs, 4:7
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.Theodore Roosevelt
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.Samuel Smiles
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.Publilius Syrus
Water is the only drink for a wise man.Henry David Thoreau