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Wisdom Quotes
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
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"There's a different kind of beauty that comes with humility and honesty."
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"People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions."
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"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."
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"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."
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"If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?"
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"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."
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"No society wants you to be wise, because a wise person is difficult to control."
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"Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."
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"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"
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"People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it."
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"Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God."
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"It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience."
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"Life and love are not about what you know, but about what you know you don't know."
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"Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent."
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"A wise bird would rather lose a worm than a feather."
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"Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake."
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"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
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"This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven."
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"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."
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"A river cannot boast to a sea."
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"Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices."
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"Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom a profound, old, terrible, and unimaginably various experience of life. But he himself is young: impatient, inexperienced. He stands higher than we stand, seeing wider, but he is himself only the height of a man."
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"Our goal in life is to carry with us the wisdom of experience, yet treat each new day as its own unique reality, rather than comparing what currently is to what has been in the past. When we compare, we plant expectations that then become self-fulfilling prophesies through the Law of Attraction."
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"Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam."
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"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom."
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"Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps."
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