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" He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. "
Edgar Fiedler
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" What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. "
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" A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. "
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" The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. "
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" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "
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" Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. "
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" My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete. "
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" If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. "
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" I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy. "
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" When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.' "
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" Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. "
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" It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom. "
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" There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment. "
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" Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. "
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" Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. "
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" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "
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" Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard. "
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" You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom. "
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" When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom. "
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" Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. "
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" It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. "
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" The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in. "
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" It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. "
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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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