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Wisdom Quotes
"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
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"The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it."
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"Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him."
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"As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge."
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"Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can."
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"Ask yourself:Am I living my past, present or future?"
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"The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition."
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"Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him."
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"The problem is not just the wrong ormistake that you did but the correction,/right you refused to do."
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"I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things."
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"It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst."
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"Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards."
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"He who despises a poor man's wisdom has turned away great riches."
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"To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it."
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"Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true."
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"You have to read between the lines, I saw it all in her eyes before her actions came to life, and it's what wisdom is all about."
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"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."
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"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."
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