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Wisdom Quotes
"Don't accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first."
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"Never lose your sense of common sense."
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"A small boat that sails the river is better than a large ship that sinks in the sea."
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"I would rather be average and wise than be extraordinary and imprudent."
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"Those who claim to be intelligent and you as fool, forget the basic anatomy, a fool does not figure out the result, whereas the so called intellect wrestles himself to get the result, now tell me who is at peace?"
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"Understanding and accepting the decisions you have made, good or bad, will make you bolder. Reflection helps punctuate your past and indent your future."
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"Wisdom knows the way. Understanding sees the way. Passion feels the way. Love goes all the way."
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"If you will not hear reason, she'll rap your knuckles."
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"A wise man nourishes his soul each morning with the word of God and enriches his day with God's wisdom. Psalm 19:7."
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"Smart thinking is to know what you think and why you think it."
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"It is lightning that strikes, not thunder."
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"You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to let your fear conquer you."
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"I never met a man that I didn't like."
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"Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring."
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"If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know."
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"The loudest preacher in the world is your conscience, the cleverest is wisdom, the rowdiest is passion, the surest is truth, the purest is love, and the highest is God."
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"Contrary to Expectation. A wise man, the wonder of his age, taught his disciples from a seemingly inexhaustible store of wisdom. He attributed all his knowledge to a thick tome which was kept in a place of honour in his room. The sage would allow nobody to open the volume. When he died, those who had surrounded him, regarding themselves as his heirs, ran to open the book, anxious to possess what it contained. They were surprised, confused and disappointed when they found that there was writing on only one page. They became even more bewildered and then annoyed when they tried to penetrate the meaning of the phrase which met their eyes. It was: 'When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge."
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"We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality."
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"Go back to Socrates: 'Know thyself.' For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people: saints, who know they are sinners; and sinners, who think they are saints. Which are you?"
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"Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise."
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"I do not know everything, still many things I understand."
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"True education expands your imagination. False education fills your mind with dogma and makes you a prisoner of conformity."
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"Each of us wages a private battle to thrive. Whenever a person fully immerses oneself in life's aromatic flower garden of pleasures and encounters life's warship of armor-plated rigors, they blend and bend to make reasonable accommodations for surviving. Scripted and unscripted encounters with superior militant forces bruise us mightily and eventually cut us to the core. Every person's life contains a minefield of obstacles that function as potential barriers to achieving our ultimate manifestation. The expended labor of continuously hefting oneself over one contentious hurdle after another is what leads a conscientious person onto the path of needing to write in order to create emotional poultices to ameliorate painful wounds."
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"Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?"
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"Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no."
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"The history of our time must be well-captured and documented."
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"The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness."
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"Investing in your mind is the best investment you can make."
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"What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right, no one can be always right."
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