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"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values."
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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!'."

"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."
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"Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value."


"Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments."


"Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure."


"Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive."


"I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature."


"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system."
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