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Wisdom Quotes
"Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil."
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"Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits."
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"Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold."
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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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"There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world."
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"All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward."
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"No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding."
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"That which is worth telling is not worth having."
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"If one bite fills you, you don't need two."
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"In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance."
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"What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told."
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"Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes."
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"If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen."
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"Never ever continue to complain of lack of time all the time for no one is in possession of all the time."
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"To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!"
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"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."
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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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"The highest form of wisdom comes from deep observation, kind realization, and curious actualization."
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"Every action of giving creates an opposite action of receiving and what you receive is always equal to what you've given. Whatever you give out in life, must return to you. It is the physics and the mathematics of the universe."
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"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed."
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"Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry."
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"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
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"You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact."
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"Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists."
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"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth."
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"The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive."
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"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."
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