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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."

"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!'."

"A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent."

"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."
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"Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance."

"Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation."

"An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin - lined, diamond - studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison"

"It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens."

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up."

"Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do."

"And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was."

"Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels."
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