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Wisdom Quotes
"Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both."
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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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"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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"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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"One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced."
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"To gain wisdom, try to understand with love."
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"An artist adopts a radically different view regarding the importance of time than a businessperson does. Instead of perceiving time as a merchantable facet doled out incrementally according to marketplace demands, an artist portrays time as an agent of destruction. The irrevocability of time frames the human condition. Time might the medium of all human experience, but its passage obscures and eventually obliterates all human endeavors. Time unchecked leads to a blank slate of nothingness. Time's destructive march towards meaningless is arrested through memory and art depicting humankind's struggles and accomplishments."
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"That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it."
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"We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so."
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"Don't judge a book by its cover."
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"Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don't mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the intellect whereas the latter appeals to the heart."
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"Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future."
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"Once you let them establish their ideology in you, they will drive you crazy."
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"Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time..."
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"A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village, the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age."
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"The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom."
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"Friar Laurence:O, mickle is the powerful grace that liesIn herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought to vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give; nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified."
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"If you venture to be a sageLet your virtues subside your rageFor deep wisdom you'll be veneratedLet cold veins feel blood cells generated."
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"When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man."
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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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"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune."
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"We do not know the details in a day. How can we foretell the happenings in distant time."
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"Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort."
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
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"There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals."
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"Wonder is the seed of knowledge."
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"Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom."
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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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"There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source."
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