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Simple Sunday- Wisdom

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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”-Confucius

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”-Calvin Coolidge

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”-Henry Ward Beecher

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”-Benjamin Franklin

“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”- Leonard Nimoy

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Simple Sunday- Wisdom From the Past

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“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries. [Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]” ― James Madison

“…legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”-James Madison

“Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar of money appropriated to their support no matter how raised, shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school…Leave the matter of religion to the family circle, the church & the private school support[ed] entirely by private contribution. Keep the church and state forever separate.”― Ulysses S. Grant

“For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.”-Benjamin Franklin

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Simple Sunday- Learning

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“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”-Zora Neale Hurston

“I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.”-Natalie Portman

“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”-Walt Whitman

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”-Abigail Adams

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”-B. B. King

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Simple Sunday- Chinese Proverbs

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If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

If your strength is small, don’t carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don’t give advice.

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.