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Wisdom Quotes
"Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs."
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"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
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"All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully."
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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."
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"To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy."
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"When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out one against the other I take the course indicated by what remains."
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"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."
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"My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,-a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy."
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"The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment."
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"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment."
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"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."
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"If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?"
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"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
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"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."
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"I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity."
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"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body."
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"Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns."
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"A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace."
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"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."
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"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."
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