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Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision.

 

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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher


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Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!

 

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

 

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The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.

 

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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

 

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

 

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.

 

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.



Mary Catherine Bateson:

 

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If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons

 

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If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons d

 

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Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

 

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Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

 

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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

 

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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.


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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

 

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how ot do it, and Virtue is doing it.

 

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

 

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no longer enough to be smart -- all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.

 

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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.