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Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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Wisdom at times is found in folly.

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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

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Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

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He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

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

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When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

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Wisdom comes with winters

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Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.

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Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.

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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

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