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“There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ac56ccdc1e05f6914ab10fee9ec6b9632db9b2266ea68b9914fbca4794479949
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“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,-- These three alone lead life to sovereign power.”
Alfred Tennyson
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out…”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its…”
Daniel Webster
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Wisdom shall die with you.”
Unattributed
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.”
Matthew Arnold
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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