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" Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. "
Sidney Hook
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" The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. "
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" I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. "
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" Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord. "
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" I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom. "
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" It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. "
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" Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord. "
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" Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. "
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" Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. "
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" Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. "
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" If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. "
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" You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. "
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" All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. "
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" I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me. "
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Always
" 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. "
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" Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. "
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Us
" Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant. "
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" Be happy. It's one way of being wise. "
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" This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. "
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" People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. "
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" A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. "
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" Cleverness is not wisdom. "
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" The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. "
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" One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. "
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" The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. "
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" The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. "
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" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "
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