Wisdom Branch 3: Ethics - Deepstash

Wisdom Branch 3: Ethics

Have a clear sense of right and wrong and stick to it.

To be wise means that you work hard to follow through on decisions that will further a worthwhile cause. Unwise people will do everything in their power to get ahead, regardless of the consequences to others.

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“An idea is something that won’t work unless you do.” - Thomas A. Edison

“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.”

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