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" Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. "

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" Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. "

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" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "

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" Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. "

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" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "

" It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. "

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" Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. "

" I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. "

" Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. "

" A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. "

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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. "

" In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is. "

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" Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. "

" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "

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" Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. "

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" I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. "

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" We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. "

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" Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. "

" We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. "

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" I reject most conventional wisdom. "

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