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Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
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Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
St. John of the Cross
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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
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Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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