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"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."

"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."

"What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right, no one can be always right."

"To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don't give him poem to recite; don't give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is."

"Wisdom is the result of time well spent."

"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."

"A 'biomass' man is not deeply analyzing things to draw a meaningful conclusions."

"Only foolish fishes wish to fly!"

"Possession without understanding leads to loss."
Explore more quotes by William Faulkner


"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."


"Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean."


"People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, wrenches...something. Your entrails, maybe. The member of the mob who holds up the whole ceremony for seconds or even minutes while he dislodges a family of bugs or lizards from the log he is about to put on the fire."


"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
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