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Wisdom Quotes
"If I look at the mass I will never act."
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"The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice."
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"Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying."
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"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace."
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"This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven."
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"Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?"
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"It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer."
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"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."
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"The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change."
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"A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse."
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"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
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"Be wise like water and adapt, adjust, and appreciate whomever you are with and wherever you are."
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"While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings."
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"Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves."
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"People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to convince them towards wrong."
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"Many talk about flowing against the wind, but its only fools, who goes against the wind. The wise one's, simply adjust themselves with the flow of the wind."
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"True education gives you power. Education and experience make you wise."
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"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more."
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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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"They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed."
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"Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it."
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"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."
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"Discipline is wisdom and vice versa."
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"If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees."
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"Dust is not a constant. There's not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings make Dust-they renew it all the time, by thinking and feeling and reflecting, by gaining wisdom and passing it on. And if you help everyone else in your worlds to do that, by helping them to learn and understand about themselves and each other and the way everything works, and by showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and patient instead of hasty, and cheerful instead of surly, and above all how to keep their minds open and free and curious Then they will renew enough to replace what is lost through one window. So there could be one left open."
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"La vida solo puede ser entendida mirando hacia atrás, aunque deba ser vivida mirando hacia adelante."
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"Life and love are not about what you know, but about what you know you don't know."
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"Fairytales by nature only talk about the victors. The survivors. Nobody speaks about what happens to those who failed, except in the abstract: as cautionary tales to guide others onto the path to success. How many brave knights fell to the dragon before he was slayed by the noble prince? How many children burned to a crisp and eaten before the wicked witch received her due? These stories are lost, but the lesson behind them is not: it is not enough to be merely pure and good."
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"(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That's why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too."
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"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
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"Perception and worldview are one's summary of life."
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