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«Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.»
«The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.»
«We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.»
Author: Olin Miller | About: Opinions | Keywords: Know how, probably, seldom
«You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.»
«The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.»
«When I'm not afraid to fail, I wont. When I'm not afraid to fall down, falling down won't feel like failure. I have fallen down enough to get more comfortable with it, to know how productive it can be, how necessary it is to growth. Still, when I sense the ground beneath me giving way, I have to remind myself that it's OK if I falter. I have to remind myself that it's more than OK!»
«The really great people are the ones who know how to make the little people feel great»
«We'd never know how high we are, till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky»
«Those who know how to think need no teachers.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi (Philosopher) | About: Thinking | Keywords: How to, Know how, teachers
«We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.»

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