Spreuken over Wijsheid

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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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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.

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We don't receive wisdom. we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

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To acquire knowledge, one must study. but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

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No man is wise enough by himself.

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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Overdreven ernst is geen teken van wijsheid.

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Wijsheid wordt uit nood geboren.

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Intelligentie krijgt men mee, wijsheid moet men leren.

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Op weg naar de wijsheid is de eerste stap stilte. de tweede luisteren. de derde onthouden. de vierde oefenen. de vijfde onderwijzen aan anderen.

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Wijsheid is: meer vreugde beleven aan tien vogels in de lucht dan aan een in de hand.

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Als de wijsheid binnenkomt, komt de spitsvondigheid mee.

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Beknoptheid is de ziel van de wijsheid.

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De dingen die ons gelukkig maken, maken ons wijs.

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Kennis is nog geen wijsheid.

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De wijsheid der kinderen is hun vrolijkheid.

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Alles wat ik over het leven heb geleerd, kan ik samenvatten in drie woorden: het gaat verder.

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Pijn doet een mens nadenken, gedachten maken een mens wijs, wijsheid maakt het leven draaglijk.

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De stilte is als slaap, zij verfrist de wijsheid.

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Wellicht schuilt in de twijfel de grootste wijsheid.

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De hoogste wijsheid is vriendelijkheid.

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Houd verre van mij de wijsheid die niet weent, het denken dat niet lacht en de grootheid die zich niet buigt voor kinderen.

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Er is geen lift voor wijsheid, ze gaat trapsgewijs.

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Wijsheid is nooit haastig en haast is zelden wijs.

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Leed is de vader en liefde de moeder van de wijsheid.

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De conditio sine qua non van wijsheid en goedheid is een goede spijsvertering.

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Wijsheid is weten wanneer je dom mag zijn.

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Wijsheid is poezie die zingt in de geest.

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Wijsheid is: een paar schaatsen in de ijstijd.

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Het is nooit zo dat de natuur het ene zegt en wijsheid het andere.

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Wie het dwaze niet eert, is de wijsheid niet weerd.

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Ik heb altijd de dwaasheid der hartstochten verkozen boven de wijsheid der onverschilligheid.

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Iedereen is minstens vijf minuten per dag een idioot. Wijsheid bestaat erin die grens niet te overschrijden.

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Negentig procent van alle wijsheid is: op het juiste moment wijs te zijn.

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Wijsheid is niets anders dan de wetenschap van het geluk.

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De ochtend is verstandiger dan de avond tevoren.

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Onze eigen wijsheid schiet te kort zodra het eigenwijsheid wordt.

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Een wijs man is een hoed voor 1OO kaalhoofdigen en een stok voor 1OO blinden.

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Men heeft de wijsheid niet in pacht enkel door ze te play-backen.

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Het mooiste van alles dat wijsheid ons biedt om het leven prachtig te maken, is zonder twijfel vriendschap.

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Wijsheid is de eigenschap die je uit situaties houdt waarin je haar nodig hebt.

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Wijsheid bestaat uit weten wanneer je de perfectie moet vermijden.

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De meest wijze man is alleen maar een jongetje dat zijn volwassenheid betreurt.

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Ook de spiegel van de wijsheid beslaat.

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

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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

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A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

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Cleverness is not wisdom.

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

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Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

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I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

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If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

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If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

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If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

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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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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

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It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

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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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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

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No man was ever wise by chance.

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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

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Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

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Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

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Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

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

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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

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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

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Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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