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Wisdom Quotes
"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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"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
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"Past data should only be used as a learning and not as a base for setting future goals."
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"I take all knowledge to be my province."
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"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows."
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"Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet."
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"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
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"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
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"If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom."
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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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"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge."
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"Pieces of jigsaw puzzle might all be different but when fit in, completes the story. Expecting all pieces to be the same is craziness, completing the puzzle is what you are born for!!!!"
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"He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed."
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"Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection."
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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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"Delay is not denial.There is a waiting time."
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"Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life."
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"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity."
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"Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true."
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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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"Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied."
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"The world is full of problems and I bet you the problems will continue to exist but what will make you relevant to the world is when you have answers to the questions the world asks. You can only be useful when you have the answers to the questions of the world. The best way you provide solutions and answers to those challenges is through wisdom."
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"We call first truths those we discover after all the others."
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