"Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind."

Wisdom, Thought, Reflection, Philosophy, Mind

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"Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind."

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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."

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

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

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"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."

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"Wisdom is the result of time well spent."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

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"Knowing your ignorance is better than your knowledge."

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"One of the greatest discoveries you could actually discover in life is the treasure of solitude."

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"Don't condemn what you can't comprehend."

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"A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear."

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"It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh."

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"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

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"The truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength."

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"My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am."

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"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."

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"Punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification."

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"As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book."

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"All that is not God is death."

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"With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the flesh-Eager to net the soul before it wake,That it may slumberous lie, and listen to the snake."

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