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• Wisdom is the ability to do good and to abandon sin.
• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James
• In seeking wisdom the first step is silence, the second: listening, the third: remembering, the fourth: practicing, the fifth: teaching others.
- Solomon Ibn
• The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice. They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith. They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom.
- Rav Kook
• The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
• People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they BEGIN TO BLAME SOMEONE ELSE.
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