Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
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A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. 'I got it from my good judgment,' he answered. And where did his good judgment come from 'I got it from my bad judgment.'
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Christianity is not a 'spiritual' religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely 'practical' religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.
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