Francis of Assisi on wisdom

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• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

  Socrates470–399 BC

• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

  Confucius551–479 BC

• True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we
  understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

  MSManuel J. Smith1934–2007Often credited to Socrates

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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