"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."

Wisdom, Faith, Doctors, Grave, Questions

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"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."

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"Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table-it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket-that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok, we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!"

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"There is no saint here. I have attained wisdom from life's experiences... the positive, the negative, the destructive, the nourishing. I have been medicine and I have been poison. I've learned a lot about heaven from aligning with angels and I learned a lot about hell from acting like a devil. I offer my scars... what you call "wisdom"... as insight I have gathered from my comfort of living within both the light and the shadow."

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"The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige."

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"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

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"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."

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"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."

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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

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"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."

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"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."

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"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

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"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."

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"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"

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"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it."

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"The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd."

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"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."

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