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" 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. "

Radhanath Swami

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

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" The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation. "

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" It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. "

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" However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. "

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" Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. "

" Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore. "

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" A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. "

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" Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. "

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" Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. "

" To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. "

" Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. "

" Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. "

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" The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. "

" There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. "

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" The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. "

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" I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser. "

" The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. "

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" The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. "

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" There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together. "

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" Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom. "

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" But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. "

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" The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. "

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" The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. "