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" A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. "

John Henry Newman

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" If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. "

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" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

" This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. "

" We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it. "

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" When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. "

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" Plodding wins the race. "

" If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar. "

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" Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. "

" I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom. "

" We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

" If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. "

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" To win without risk is to triumph without glory. "

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" Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. "

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" We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. "

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" Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. "

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