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Wisdom Quotes
"At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly."
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"Altitude reduces all things to their relative proportions, and to the truth. Cares, remorse, disgust become strangers: How easily indifference, contempt, forgetfulness drop away...and forgiveness descends."
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"Unlock untie yourself from people who rope u into redundancy."
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"I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad."
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"Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, 'The dogs bark but the caravan passes on'? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan."
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"I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized (this came years after the first realization) that another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works."
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"The power of an idea is never to be underestimated. Many a thought has survived long after its host has ceased to be. It is the power of an idea that no shield can defend against, nor sword divide, nor poison infect. As such, we must aspire to create ideas, rather than preserve life. In a sense, this is how we achieve true immortality and live on past our time."
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"Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know."
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"In terms of experience, we want to make this (referring to the self) very pleasant. We want this to be blissful, ecstatic. But, as I said before, even being ecstatic is not goal by itself. If you are blissful by your own nature, then the important thing is that you are no more the issue. There are other issues in this existence; we can look at those. But if you are an issue, what other issue will you take in your hands? You will not touch anything. When I am enough trouble myself, why do I want to take on this one or that one? When I am no more an issue, now I am willing to dig into the whole existence and see what it is all about."
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"To know when to be generous and when firm-that is wisdom."
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"It's easy to waste too many words-and too much energy-on nonsense we don't even care about. What a relief it is to start giving time and energy to what matters most (whatever that is for you). We choose what gets our attention. Why not choose things that are worthy of it?When he chose only to speak about things he absolutely believed, knew to be true, or really cared about, he was delighted by how much less talking he needed to do."
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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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"To be wise for one day is better than to be intelligent for a hundred."
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"The head thinks. The heart knows."
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"Wisdom is a reliable companion."
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"The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate -- and foreboding -- horizon."
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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 Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it."
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"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
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"The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."
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"Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere."
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"God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man."
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"A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use."
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"Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king."
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