How To Choose Your Friends Wisely
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of Timeless Wisdom, Dennis Prager dives into the importance of choosing friends wisely. He shares a personal anecdote from his childhood about befriending a group of kids at summer camp, despite one of them having a questionable character. Dennis emphasizes that associating with people who don't have good character can lead to hurt and disappointment. He also discusses how people often choose friends based on superficial qualities like popularity, intelligence, or physical appearance, rather than genuine goodness. This conversation highlights the need to surround ourselves with people who uplift and inspire us.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's episode of Timeless Wisdom. |
| 0:03.6 | I know a guy who for years associated with a guy because he was interesting, he was intelligent, |
| 0:08.6 | but he had a horrible character, horrible, and got burned, really burned, burned to a crisp. |
| 0:19.5 | There are so many reasons people choose to be in association with people, and most of them |
| 0:27.2 | are wrong and self-destructive. |
| 0:33.0 | That's coming up on timeless wisdom with Dennis Prager. |
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| 1:00.3 | Call 864-644-1900. |
| 1:02.9 | That's 864-644-1900. |
| 1:06.0 | Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. |
| 1:09.4 | Here, thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs, |
| 1:13.8 | and to purchase Dennis Prager's rational Bibles. |
| 1:16.5 | Go to Dennis Prager.com. |
| 1:19.0 | It's the happy, happy, happy, happy air. |
| 1:21.8 | Hey, everybody, it is. |
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