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title: "3 Wise Understanding Quotes by 2 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Wise Understanding quotes by 2 authors. Discover the best Wise Understanding sayings and thoughts."
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> [Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/why-should-you-want-to-give-up-a-child-s-wise-not-understanding-in/)

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/)

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> [Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-brown/mistakes-are-the-stepping-stones-to-wisdom-we-learn-from-trial-error/)

[Leon Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-brown/)

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> [“And when you realize that their activities are shabby, that their vocations are petrified and no longer connected with life, why not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/and-when-you-realize-that-their-activities-are-shabby-that-their/)

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/)

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