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Wisdom Quotes
"If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness."
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"Be inspired but not proud."
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"At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly."
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"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."
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"Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience."
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"A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept."
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"I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting."
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"There is nothing in the path of life that we don't already know before we start. Nothing important is learned, it is simply remembered."
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"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."
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"Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not."
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"If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?"
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"I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views."
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"A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick."
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"Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it."
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"If you look at it, life is like one big series of lessons, that starts the moment we are born."
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"Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts."
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"We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age."
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"The head thinks. The heart knows."
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"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."
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"It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things."
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"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows."
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"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
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"A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought."
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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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"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."
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"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
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"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
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"I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years."
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"When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only increase the problems. Share your joy with everyone.Listen to others; yet do not listen. If your mind gets stuck in their problems, not only are they miserable, but you also become miserable."
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"I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so."
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