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Wisdom Quotes
"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."
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"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows."
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"If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom."
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"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar."
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"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
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"What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out."
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"Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular."
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"I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not."
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"Be inspired but not proud."
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"I think we're part of a greater wisdom that we will ever understand; a higher order, call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. It doesn't punish, it doesn't reward, it doesn't judge at all. It just is."
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"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already."
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"The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else."
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"A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept."
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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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"Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!"
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"When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally. So I like the parson's opinion on law, the lawyer's on doctoring, the doctor's on business, and my business-man's . . . on morals."
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"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."
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"To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity and insight. For if a question is absurd in itself and calls for unnecessary answers, it not only brings disgrace to the person raising it, but may prompt an incautious listener to give absurd answers, thus presenting, as the ancients said, the laughable spectacle of one person milking a he-goat, and another holding the sieve underneath."
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"Time is a rare resource and must be invested wisely."
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"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."
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"Gilks sighed. 'You're a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,' he said, 'but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid."
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"Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied."
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"Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life."
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"Wisdom comes at a price. But the price you have to pay shouldn't guide your decision to invest " the expected return should."
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"Only the power of light illuminates our thoughts and our being."
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"You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you. And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you."
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"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."
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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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"True wisdom is found in simplicity and in humility."
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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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"Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists."
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"As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building."
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"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
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"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments."
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"All I know is that I do not know anything."
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"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
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