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| Quote for category - wisdom |
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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and
exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in
the elimination of non-essentials.
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It is no longer enough to be smart -- all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our
core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom
implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.
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The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
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He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
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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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Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to
interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
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A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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