"The beginning of wisdom is to desire it."

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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

Stephen King, American Author

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"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

Stephen King, American Author

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"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Science is nothing but perception."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"A wise man's question contains half the answer."

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"If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend."

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"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave."

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"Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow."

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"And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do."

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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

"Science is nothing but perception."

"What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much."

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"A wise man's question contains half the answer."

"If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend."

"As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters."

"All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out."

"Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace."

"Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives."

"Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings."

"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave."

"Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow."

"And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do."