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Wisdom Quotes
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
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"Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?"
157
"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
126
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
120
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
102
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."
87
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
65
"The first professor you meet in life is your mother; the second is hardship, and the last is death."
63
"Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit."
60
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
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"To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed."
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"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
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"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."
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"Rather than always impose your will, allow men to learn from their mistakes. Great failures make great teachers; success enables one to forget some thingsa failure cannot afford to."
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"To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts."
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"When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out one against the other I take the course indicated by what remains."
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"Don't ruin a good opportunity fixating on a bad one."
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"Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs."
51
"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."
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"My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,-a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy."
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