"Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say."

Wisdom, Silence, Restraint, Speech

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"Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table-it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket-that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Wisdom, Loss, Growth, Change, Realization

"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Wisdom, Illusion, Gift, Mind, Truth

"Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok, we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!"

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Wisdom, Decision, Mistakes, Destiny, Ownership

"There is no saint here. I have attained wisdom from life's experiences... the positive, the negative, the destructive, the nourishing. I have been medicine and I have been poison. I've learned a lot about heaven from aligning with angels and I learned a lot about hell from acting like a devil. I offer my scars... what you call "wisdom"... as insight I have gathered from my comfort of living within both the light and the shadow."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Wisdom, Experience, Light, Shadow

"The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Wisdom, Hateful, People, Behavior, Oblige

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Wisdom, Equality, Faith, Humanity

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Wisdom, Day, Fool, Man

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Wisdom, Art, Quest, Question, Questions

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Wisdom, Curiosity, Existence, Reason, Knowledge

"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Wisdom, Knowledge, Mind, Understanding, Learning

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"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."

Wisdom, Curiosity, Passion, Understanding, Learning

"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation."

Capitalism, Wealth, Economics, History, Power

"Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children."

Civilization, Wisdom, Heritage, Future, Truth

"We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state."

Philosophy, Realism, Contentment, Change, Acceptance

"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."

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"Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say."

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"Worship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear."

Psychology, Worship, Fear, Emotion, Faith

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"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion."

"Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok, we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!"

"The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige."

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."

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"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."

"War does one good-it teaches people geography."

"Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one."

"Death like style is the removal of rubbish."

"We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state."

"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."

"Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say."

"Worship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear."