Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.
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Saint Bernard
These are some quotes by No-nationality author Saint Bernard Saint, who lived between 1090 and 1153.
Quotes by Saint Bernard
In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
Saint Bernard
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