"They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women."
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"The intelligent talk and the wise listen."
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"I'd much rather hear someone's unique interpretation of their own experience. Those who negate or override someone else's experience in order to one-up them or to show off their own knowledge or perceived abilities are in truth showing off their lack of listening skills and wisdom."
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"True wisdom listens more, talks less, and can get along with all types of people."
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"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk."
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"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."
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"Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains."
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"Knowing that your weakness could be another person's strength or opportunity, it follows that you're not to be around people by virtue of them understanding your weaknesses, but rather by virtue of them not creating circumstances that bring out your weaknesses."
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"You're not to be around people who understand your weaknesses, but rather those will not put you in circumstances that bring out your weaknesses. It's basic logic that your weakness is another person's strength or opportunity."
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"It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep."
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"Much can be accomplished if you seek a heart of wisdom and walk diligently with God each and every day."
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"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"
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"If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff?"
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"My soul is in the sky."
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"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
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"Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question."
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"Imagine yourself near the end of your life. You are relaxing in a rocking chair reflecting on the decision you presently want to make. As the older, wiser you thinks about the outcome of your choice, ask yourself three simple questions.1. Did it cause harm?2. Did it bring about good?3. How did it shape the person I became?The Rocking Chair Test helps you to take a long view of your options. After imagining your answers to those questions, you should know better which way to go."
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"Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you."
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"Dear Waves,You have been restless all your life? Or maybe uneasy? I don't know quite. Oscillating between faiths, swinging between shores!Yet when we sit next to you on those sands, do you never feel like sharing what bothers you so much?"
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"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."
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