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Wisdom Quotes
"Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race."
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"We all have a certain knowledge about how the universe works. And when someone comes along and challenges that knowledge, we don't know how to deal with it. We aren't hardwired that way. It's difficult to question everything you've ever thought to be true. So, like I said, it's not your fault. You can believe me or not, but whichever you choose, you're the one who has to deal with the consequences. So make your decision wisely, grasshopper."
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"Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition."
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"Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows."
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"Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution."
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"Two kinds of selfish people: the unwise and the wise. Unwise selfish people think only of themselves, and the result is confusion and pain. Wise selfish people know that the best thing they can do for themselves is to be there for others. As a result, they experience joy."
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"If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes."
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"When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum."
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"Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools."
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"Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding."
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"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
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"The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides."
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"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."
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"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense."
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"We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We're willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea."
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"What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?"
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"No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?"
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"To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love."
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"If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred."
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"No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding."
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"Despite all the identifying, measuring, photographing, I had managed to set the experience in a kind of present past, a having looked, even as I was temporally and physically still looking...It is not necessarily too little knowledge that causes ignorance; possessing too much, or wanting to gain too much, can produce the same result."
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"Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Discipline your mind to think positively, to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event."
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"The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living."
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"History teaches us every day, our understanding is the matter!"
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"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem."
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"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness."
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"True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct."
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"The best ones, are not the perfect ones."
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"All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about."
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