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" Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. "

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" In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. "

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" For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own. "

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" How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. "

" It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. "

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" No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course. "

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" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

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" What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. "

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" It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. "

" Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue. "

" The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. "

" Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well. "

" Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. "

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. "

" The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. "

" The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes. "

" It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. "

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" Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. "

" 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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" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

" For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably. "