"The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly."
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"The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him."
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"Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are."
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"While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecatio n, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are."
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"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."
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"The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product."
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"It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well."
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"Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000."
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"Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others."
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"Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear."
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"The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate."
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"Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows."
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"We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct."
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"Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running."
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"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."
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"... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom."
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"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them."
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"In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads - at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out."
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"We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary."
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"What the wise seek is in themselves"
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