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“Knowledge as divorced from wisdom leaves the world as that which must be defined by fact, rather than that which is defined by a wonder that invites fact when appropriate, but denies it when it is not.”

Wisdom Wonder Knowledge Logic Discernment Fact

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Our logic is convinced that randomness is too random to be anything other than random. But could it be that this the randomness of our logic?”

Thinking Wisdom Purpose Logic Rational Discernment Random

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“Is it possible that the purpose of all things random is to show us that nothing really is?”

Life Wisdom Purpose Logic Insight Thoughtful Random

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“If we believe that life is limited to what fits into the rubrics of our logic maybe we are afraid of what life is, when maybe we should fear what our assumption of it is.”

Life Wisdom Fear Logic Assumption Foolishness Limitations Rubrics

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“Logic is not the end of the story as that single realization is logic’s greatest gift and ultimate accomplishment.”

Wisdom Truth Logic Intelligence Gift Rational Accomplishment Discernment Fact

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“Logic becomes illogical at the point that it assumes that everything can be explained logically.”

Wisdom Perception Logic Intelligence Reasonable Subjective Illogical Objective

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“The absence of God in our lives is a result of our absence of reason, for if He is absent it is because we requested it. So, to have an absence of reason that results in the absence of God leaves me absent of both.”

Reason God Wisdom Christian Faith Jesus Logic Absence Maturity Discernment

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“Logic would say, ‘pay it no mind’. Yet the heart would say, ‘to pay it no mind would be to pay too much’.”

Mind Heart Feelings Wisdom Pay Wise Logic Intuition Rational Discernment

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“I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.”

God Wisdom Bottom Foolish Release Guidance Control Naive Direction Pompous Ship Helm Captain

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Stubborn’ and ‘stupid’ have far more in common than just their first three letters.”

Wisdom Stupid Letters Foolish Stubborn Discernment Fools Similarities

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“Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?”

Wisdom Lost Worry Advice Concern Guidance Wilderness Compass Direction Self Destruction Self Sabotage Course

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“To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.”

Wisdom Care Choices Decision Decisions Decision Making Caution Repercussions Decisions In Life

Book:Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Life's Complex Journey

Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Life's Complex Journey

“The greatest fool is not the person who has been fooled by the lies of others, despite how crafty and ingenious those lies might have been. Rather, it is the fool who has lied with such amazing dexterity and subtle finesse that he himself has come to believe his own lies. And this is the most forlorn and yet the most dangerous person that I can imagine.”

Wisdom Lying Lies Stupidity Deceit Deceived Error Foolhardy Fool Foolish

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“Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.”

Wisdom Company Knowledge Wise Responsible Intelligence Insight Insightful Discernment Compatible Compatibility Acumen Shrewd

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“When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.”

Wisdom Courage Wise Determination Defeat Determined Defeated Discouraged Boldness Tenacity Bold Knocked Down

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“Do not confuse giving up on life with giving up on the way that you chose to live it.”

Life Wisdom Choices Giving Up Living Defeat Foolish Lifestyle Surrender Confuse

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“To walk in the woods is not to run from life. Rather, it’s to observe how life should be done in order to build a culture that won’t require any running.”

Life Wisdom Culture Society Living Woods Thoughtful Run Flee

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“Fiction transcends life truths in a manner that makes them inviting so that we might see life’s truths in a manner that makes them compelling.”

Life Wisdom Truth Fiction Living Insight Compelling Inviting

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“Rich is the person who thinks beyond their own lives and lives in like manner.”

Thinking Life Giving Wisdom Rich Sacrifice Living Selfless

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“Every single day in a thousand different ways, the script that I am writing across the pages of my life is dramatically impacting how others are writing theirs. And if I dare to recognize that I am writing far more scripts than this single one that I hold in my hand, would I not hold the page of this day and apply the pen of how I lived it in an unimaginably different way?”

Life Wisdom Care Choices Paper Living Scripts Decisions Thoughtful Pen

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“It seems altogether probable that we would live with far greater care if we realized that in living out our day we are in fact writing out our history.”

Writing Wisdom Care History Living Legacy Thoughtful Caution Footprints

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“To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.”

“If there’s no answer to your question, it’s because you’ve looked in the places that have no ability to ask the question.”

Wisdom Answers Knowledge Experience Discernment Expertise Question

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“Greed would have us buy its tenets that those around us owe us an endless debt that we are free to collect by whatever means. But we would be far wiser to embrace a tenet of indebtedness and give to those around us by whatever means.”

Wisdom Appreciate Greed Value Appreciation Debt Discouragement

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“Wisdom involves appreciating the things that we didn’t achieve as much as we appreciate those that we did.”

Wisdom Gratitude Appreciate Value Appreciation Cherish Thankful Accomplishments Failures Successes

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“Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ‘then.”

Life Wisdom Waiting Wise Fool Appreciate Value Appreciation Foolish Materialism Temporary Thanksgiving Thankfulness Fleeting Thankful Quality Of Life Wait Temporal

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“Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.”

“One of the most dangerous things that you can do is to change yourself before you know yourself.”

Self Wisdom Choices Change Gender Transition Foolishness Self Reflection Self Understanding

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“The worst part of telling someone, “I told you so,” is to have to tell them a second time because they didn’t figure out the problem the first time.”

Problem Wisdom Change Responsibility Learning Accountability

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“Richness is not found in changing something that does not suit our preferences or orientation. Rather, real richness is found in understanding there is a definitive purpose that will be sacrificed in the changing that the changing will never make up for.”

Wisdom Change Selfish Foolish Orientation Misguided Preferences

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“Do I place more importance on the gift, or what it cost the person to give me the gift? And if I miss the latter because I focused on the former, my own ignorance has robbed me of both.”

Giving Wisdom Sacrifice Importance Value Foolish Gift Selfless Robbed

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“I would encourage you to always look at the little things, for little though they are, they hold great things. And I would likewise encourage you to pay enough attention to the big things so that you don’t lose the little things that lie within them.”

Wisdom Greatness Importance Value Insight Priorities Great Discernment Little Acumen

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“Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.”

Wisdom Wise Stupid Ignorance Importance Value Valuable Deny Stupidity Foolish Invisible Ashamed Abandon Foolishness Diminish Abandonment Ignore Reject

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“A true genius recognizes that if they’ve arrived at a conclusion there’s a good chance that they’ve yet to arrive.”

Wisdom Wise Genius Conclusion True Arrival Arrive

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“The mind of man is a cistern in a land where it never rains.”

Mind God Wisdom Christian Hope Jesus Water Rain Man Cistern

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“A great mind without God is like a muscle car without a steering wheel. The only thing about it that’s fast is how quickly it totals itself.”

Mind God Wisdom Principles Power Car Ethics Salvation Surrender Morals

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“Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we’d be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that’s left.”

Life Wisdom Care Time Minutes Wasted Valued Cherished

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“Mine is not to judge your actions. However, that does not mean that my heart is not crushed by my inability to save you from the consequences of those actions.”

Heart Wisdom Choices Foolish Decisions Consequences Crushed Judge Outcome

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“Filling a hole in a manner that doesn’t address how it was dug is to fill a hole that is certain to remain empty.”

Wisdom Pain Loss Knowledge Wise Empty Holes Dug

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“Patience is the thing that makes me think about my choices rather than having my choices make me think about why I made them.”

Wisdom Choices Waiting Patience Thought Decisions Contemplation Wait

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“A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.”

“If you find yourself enamored by the genius of men I would suggest that you are too easily pleased and too quickly fooled.”

Men Wisdom Genius Stupidity Discernment Fooled Enamored Fool Foolish

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“The desires of a man’s heart are many, and far too many of them lead to the exact same cliff.”

Men Wisdom Choices Dangerous Foolish Desires Hearts Passions Cliff

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“Run with God or crawl with men. Although the choice seems blatantly obvious, the world seems ruefully oblivious.”

Men World God Wisdom Christian Jesus Sin Obvious Foolishness Oblivious

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“The world brazenly touts freedom as both the inalienable right and morally liberating justification to mindlessly play in the filth that lies all around me. And the slight bit of sanity that yet remains within me asks, ‘what raging madness would prompt me to incessantly wallow in the very things that will eventually swallow me?”

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Once I figured my way out of the woods, I lost the urgency to leave them. For then my attention turned to what I might learn by remaining in them so that I might better navigate life once I walked out of them.”

Life Wisdom Learning Lessons Experience Woods Maturity Navigate

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“The acquisition of knowledge is far more about learning how much there is that we don’t know. And if in all of our learning we haven’t learned that, I doubt that we’ve learned much of anything.”

Life Wisdom Education Knowledge Learning Infinite Insight Discernment Expanse

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“Being told that we’re ‘stuck in the past’ is a product of those who confuse the need to learn from the past in order to enhance the future, from being stuck in the past in a way that inhibits the future. And those that actually inhibit the future are the people who can’t tell the difference between the two.”

Wisdom Past Learning Wise Future Thoughtful Progressive Present Mindful

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