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Wisdom Quotes
"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."
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"If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without."
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"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom."
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"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
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"Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous"
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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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"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."
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"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
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"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."
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"Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right."
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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
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"True education gives you power. Education and experience make you wise."
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"The reason a lot of people do ☆not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."
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"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."
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"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
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"She knew the way of things. She knew ifyou weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the wholeworld came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hardbeneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want andwine. . . ."
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"Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge."
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"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."
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"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder."
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
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"He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."
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"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted."
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"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
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"The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend."
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"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
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"There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment."
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"Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected"."
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"When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?"
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"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."
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