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Wisdom Quotes
!["When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. ['I am on my own side, but I can listen ']"](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. ['I am on my own side, but I can listen ']"
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"I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity."
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"If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering."
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"My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech."
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"While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings."
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"Past data should only be used as a learning and not as a base for setting future goals."
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"Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied."
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"Recognizing a problem may help us to understand and solve a problem. Rather than lying down and selling our sound judgment short, let us appeal to the opulent granary of our memory and explore the green pastures lingering in our mind. ['PrAat-A -penser']"
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"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
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"You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question."
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"I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying to much"."
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"Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise."
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"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."
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"Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but it doesn't mean that they are right and you should listen to them."
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"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."
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"The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person."
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"The compensation of growing old...was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained - at last! - the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence, - the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light."
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"Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it."
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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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"One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most."
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"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
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"Never play a blame game. Your feet are aching because you put them into a tight shoe... Nobody has it on; it's you who have it on! Your aims will help you to get out of trouble games, but not your blames!"
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"Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute."
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"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."
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"The best is the cheapest."
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"It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them."
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"God's principles work whether we believe them or not."
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"The problem is not just the wrong ormistake that you did but the correction,/right you refused to do."
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"It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality."
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"The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides."
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"Red flags are moments of hesitation that determine our destination."
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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
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"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more."
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"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
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"They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed."
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