All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom
“For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W.”
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“The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he’s wise – He’s called ‘a fool’ indeed!”
“Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.”
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“Cricket Bell.” I smiled into my phone. “How did you get so wise?”
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“Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.”
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“Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.”
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“Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.”
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“I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.”
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“Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.”
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“If you rest, you rust.”
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“No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don’t have.”
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“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.”
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“Happiness is never there to stay […] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.”
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“What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.”
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“We tend to live up to our expectations.”
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