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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Herbert Simon
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains knowledge, he is an ordinary man.
Unknown
When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton
Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.
Alfred Korzybski
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination
Petronius Arbiter
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.
Benjamin Franklin
Wise men make proverbs; fools repeat them.
Unknown
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Mark Van Doren
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Unknown
Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
M. Shawn Cole
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