"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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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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"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Wisdom is not in intelligence but in simplicity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Wisdom, Simplicity, Intelligence, Perception

"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."

Stephen King, American Author

Wisdom, Writing, Editing, Ego, Courage

"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Wisdom, Fear, Respect, Life, Caution

"Sometimes only when opportunity stops banging to be let in do we notice its absence!"

Stephen Richards, British Author

Wisdom, Opportunity, Absence, Awareness, Timing

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"Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself."

Philosophy

"Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't even capable of following someone else who leads them to it, and upon many just things but not the just itself, and all the things like that, we'll claim that they accept the seeming of everything but discern nothing of what they have opinions about."

Perception

"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."

Integrity

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

Education

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

Humor

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

Wisdom

"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"

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

"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."

"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."

"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."

"Wisdom is not in intelligence but in simplicity."

"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."

"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper."

"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."

"Sometimes only when opportunity stops banging to be let in do we notice its absence!"

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"A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage."

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

"Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly."

"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"