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Wisdom Quotes
"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."
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"I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota."
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"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
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"Be knowledgeable but humble. Be wise and simple."
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"Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation."
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"We all look. The lucky find. The wise accept."
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"Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence."
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"Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom."
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"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good."
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"I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting."
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"The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use."
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"And an edge that could cut a truth from a lie."
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"When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. ['I am on my own side, but I can listen ']"
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"A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent."
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"Those of us who have overcome so many adversities from a very young age, are privileged to be able to communicate profound insights and advice to others, speaking from a place of genuine confidence and knowing."
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"For wisdom: read your Bible repeatedly and apply its truths often."
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"Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."
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"Recognizing a problem may help us to understand and solve a problem. Rather than lying down and selling our sound judgment short, let us appeal to the opulent granary of our memory and explore the green pastures lingering in our mind. ['PrAat-A -penser']"
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"I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying to much"."
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"The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all."
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"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."
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"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."
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"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."
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"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."
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"He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face."
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"Some are weather-wise some are otherwise."
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