"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."

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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Your time is the life you have at a particular moment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

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"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."

Roy T. Bennett, American Author

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"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."

Stephen King, American Author

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"A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him."

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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."

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"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."

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"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."

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"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."

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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."

"Your time is the life you have at a particular moment."

"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."

"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."

"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."

"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."

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"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."

"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools."

"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."

"A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him."

"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."

"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."

"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."

"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."

"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."

"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."