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Wisdom Quotes
"Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom."
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"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."
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"Many or few alternatives can be at hand. A wise and skilful choice acts from a sincere effort. Solutions and results come from cooperation, hard work and efficiency. With high intention matched with a flexible, patient heart and proficient action gets best quality and value. As for the restless grumbles raving from unconsciousness of complexity of matters, best be brushed off ducking out wisely from discourtesies."
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"In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered."
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
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"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."
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"Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of."
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"The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true."
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"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
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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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"The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss."
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"It seems that, without clarity and honesty, we don't progress. We just stay stuck in the same vicious cycle. But honesty without kindness makes us feel grim and mean, and pretty soon we start looking like we've been sucking on lemons. We become so caught up in introspection that we lose any contentment or gratitude we might have had. The sense of being irritated by ourselves and our lives and other people's idiosyncrasies becomes overwhelming. That's why there's so much emphasis on kindness."
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"Men... No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy."
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"Someone has said, Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance...No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name - dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable."
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"The knowledge of the Universe is not secret, but is placed in the heart of every grandma and grandpa who have nothing and yet give everything to their grandchildren, in the eyes of every mother holding her baby close to her heart, in the spirit of every father holding the hand of his child walking for the first time."
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"Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions."
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"The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future."
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"Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new."
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"Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future."
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"As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway."
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"One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most."
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"Whenever you come upon a free supply of high-quality corn, provided unexpectedly right there in the middle of the forest, be careful! The people who put it there are probably sitting nearby in a stand, just waiting to take a shot at you. Keep your eyes and ears open!"
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"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
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"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations."
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"I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out."
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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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"You are the sky. Everything else " it's just the weather."
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"The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel."
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"Simplicity is the best strategy.Reciprocity is the best policy."
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"Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know."
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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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