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Wisdom Quotes
"There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done."
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"For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom."
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"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men."
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"It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good."
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"Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can."
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"If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?"
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"In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind."
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"Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don't mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the intellect whereas the latter appeals to the heart."
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"Take time to understand uncanny and bitter situations or else, you shall only end up creating yet another similar situation, situation after situation, time and again!"
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"Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an aduibook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!"
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"Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time..."
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"To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!"
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"Let me tell you a story. There was a student who asked his teacher, what is love? The teacher said go into the field and bring me the most beautiful flower. The student returned with no flower at hand and said, "I found the most beautiful flower in the field but I didn't pick it up for I might find a better one, but when I returned to the place, it was gone.We always look for the best in life. When we finally see it, we take it for granted and after some time start expecting a better one, not knowing that it's the best for us."
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"We do not know the details in a day. How can we foretell the happenings in distant time."
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"There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source."
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"Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left."
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"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
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"Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy."
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"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values."
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"This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God."
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"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
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"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
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"The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it."
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"If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life."
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"You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time."
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"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
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"Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough."
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"Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement."
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"Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge."
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"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
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"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
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