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"935 Wisdom Quotes

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Air Come Never Over
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Children High-Quality Instead Lots
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From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

Age Early Early Age Humor
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Great Island Knowledge Little
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Royalties comes with some etiquette so also, the wisdom of a King is important…Learn them and observe them…

Royalty Etiquette Wisdom King
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Ability Choices Far More
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People do not suffer because of bad people; they suffer because the good people are silent.

People Suffer Bad Good
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Did Even Foolproof He
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Gray Hair Knows Age
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Fool Flatters Himself Wise
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Wise Anger Flint Great
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If thats how it was done, and thats how it had always been done, there had to be a reason

Done Always Been Reason
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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Answer Golden Good Silence
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People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

Anxiety Deep Funny FunnyStuff
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Complexity Inefficient Mental energy
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Great deal Children Problem Original solution
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At times submission in marriage may appear as foolishness to the world, to the believer it is wisdom. By this wisdom, many women have won their husbands to the Lord and several have kept their homes from falling apart.

Submission Foolishness Believer Wisdom
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I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

Acting Head Heart IThink
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When you make a mistake be quick to say it out loud. It only becomes a problem when you fail to admit it.

Mistake Quick Loud Problem
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Be careful who you open up to, some people will use it against you the next minute.

Be careful Open up Use Against
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It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

Away Better Burn Fade
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The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

Wisest Word man Humblest
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Listen with wisdom and speak with knowledge.

Listen Wisdom Speak Knowledge
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A man without challenges is not an innovative man.

Man Challenges Innovative
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I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

Get Go Like Lot
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No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
Being Just Logical Thinking
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Able Clearly Express ExpressYourself
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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Cannot Crude Extinguish Humor
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Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

Wisdom Transmitted Readily accumulate Ages
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Complete Despotism Smoothly Move
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Sometimes Likes Foolish people Wisdom
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

Easy Judge rightly Judging wrongly
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I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me

Despise me Understand me
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Wise parent Desire Friend Advisor
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I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Reason Always Means Someone else
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Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Loyalty Obedience Wisdom Arbitrary power
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Becomes Enemy He Make
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When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Boiling Foolish Heat Off
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Change your wounds to wisdom.

Change Wounds Wisdom
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
Age Almost Entitlement Instant
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Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
Become Course Immediately Offer
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Itself Mind Only Own
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Because Everything First Learning
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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Emotional Promiscuity Sentiment Sentimentality
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Doing Enjoyment Height Learning
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Faith Half Knowledge OneHalf
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Fools People Power Redeem
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Desire Fiery Go LetGo
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

Compassion Justice Knowledge Let Us
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Any Better Clearly Express
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