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Wisdom Quotes
"May there never be a haze over your eyes, and allow you to look at your life just the way you planned it. Through the bumps, twist and turns in your journey, let it make you wiser. Embrace life's lessons with gratitude and appreciation, and then move forward with an open heart and mind."
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"Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional."
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"They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances."
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"If there are any persons who contest a received opinion,or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, let us thankthem for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoicethat there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought,if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality ofour convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves."
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"There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself, you should be brave to stand up for what you truly believe in even if you stand alone."
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"There's a different kind of beauty that comes with humility and honesty."
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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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"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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"Life teaches us the right path is rarely the easy one."
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"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
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"Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?"
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"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients."
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"If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world."
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"The lack of historical memory is a serious shortcoming in our society. A mentality that can only say, 'Then was then, now is now, is ultimately immature. Knowing and judging past events is the only way to build a meaningful future. Memory is necessary for growth."
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"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."
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"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
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"People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it."
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"He told her, You are a wise woman. Pleasure warmed her voice. I do have my moments, don't I?"
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"If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later."
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"In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king."
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"When is the impulse to help an adult child a wise intervention and when is it self-serving and prying? I have an uneasy feeling I will have to carry the question around for a while like some grating pebble in my shoe."
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"A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom."
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"Nobody will ever be able to understand the meaning of the measure of his own words."
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"Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both."
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"You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky."
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"All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward."
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"Just because I understand does not mean I agree."
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"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."
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"I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so."
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"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."
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"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."
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"There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid."
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