"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words."

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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Wisdom, Years, Jean Jacques Rousseau

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

Stephen King, American Author

Wisdom, Truth, Power, Communication

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

Stephen King, American Author

Wisdom, Blame, Regret, Truth

"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Wisdom, Learning

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Wisdom, God, Creation

"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

Stephen King, American Author

Wisdom, Writing, Thought, Truth

"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Wisdom, Cause, Credulity, Mind, Skepticism

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Wisdom, Time, First

"Science is nothing but perception."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Wisdom, Science, Perception, Nothing

"What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Wisdom, Ignorance, Harm, Truth, Risk

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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

Forgiveness

"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

Cure

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

Cure

"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."

Decision-Making

"OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing."

Literature

"Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.I knew I must die, even without your decree:I am only mortal. And if I must dieNow, before it is my time to die,Surely this is no hardship: can anyoneLiving, as I live, with evil all about me,Think Death less than a friend?"

Philosophy

"A man growing old becomes a child again."

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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

"Science is nothing but perception."

"What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much."

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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."

"OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing."

"Kindness gives birth to kindness."

"The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength."

"Always desire to learn something useful."

"A man growing old becomes a child again."