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" Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. "
Henry Ward Beecher
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" Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well. "
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" A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills. "
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" Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. "
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" There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. "
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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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" If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. "
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" Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. "
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" We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. "
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" A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. "
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" It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. "
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" Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. "
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" Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly. "
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" Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better. "
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" Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body. "
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" Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him. "
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" Suffering is part of the divine idea. "
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" I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. "
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" Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview. "
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" Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. "
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" Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise. "
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" By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code. "
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" It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. "
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" Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. "
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" The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. "
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" All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom. "
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" Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. "
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" Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. "
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