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Wisdom Quotes
"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."
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"The church is strong when she lives by divine understanding."
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"The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight."
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"I always advise people never to give advice."
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"Manifest plainness Embrace simplicity Reduce selfishness Have few desires."
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
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"A true sage is simple like a child."
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"It would be very unwise to beg anyone who abandoned you in the past to come into your beautiful present."
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"Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose."
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"Parents need much wisdom in relating to their grown children-and much prayer. Children likewise have much to learn about relating to their parents as the years pass."
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"The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be."
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"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth."
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"To have an empty head is worse than to have an empty bank account."
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"Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind."
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"Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic."
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"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
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"I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all."
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"Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance."
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"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved."
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"At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment."
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"Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul."
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"What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it."
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"As a man is so he sees."
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"The heart of the wise person is a mirror to the world."
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"Patience is the gift of possibility. Time is merely an illusion. People lack patience, which is why time becomes their enemy."
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"We gain knowledge about the interworking of our personal mind through observation of the external world and personal introspection. Contemplation requires a degree of stillness, the willingness to consider deep thoughts."
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"It's getting more difficult to be wise, he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. "I think that's how it'ssupposed to be."
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"Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge."
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"The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible."
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"If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
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"Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment."
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"After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser."
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