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Wisdom Quotes
"Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery."
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"Laws of silence don't work. When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out."
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"I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them."
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"The intelligent talk and the wise listen."
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"Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look."
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"Don't you believe people when they tell you that people sought for a sign, and believed in miracles because they were ignorant. They did it because they were wise, filthily, vilely wise-too wise to eat or sleep or put on their boots with patience."
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"Once you let them establish their ideology in you, they will drive you crazy."
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"You can't have everything, I've often noticed it."
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"Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes."
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"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."
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"This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free."
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"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."
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"Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive."
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"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom."
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"God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own."
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"I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain."
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"Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self-disruption."
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"Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them."
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"Search for contentment in each person you meet."
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"Never set fire to a bridge while you are still crossing it."
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"Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne."
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"Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."
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