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Wisdom Quotes
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
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"For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost and for want of a horse the rider was lost being overtaken and slain by the enemy all for want of care about a horseshoe nail."
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"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."
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"Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda."
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"Knowledge if churned like milk, results in the butter of wisdom."
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"Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul."
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"Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting."
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"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
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"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."
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"Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided."
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"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."
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"The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this."
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"Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use."
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"If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in."
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"It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience."
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"Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing."
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"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
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"Silence does not always mark wisdom."
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"Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma"discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclamations, sayings, birth stories, marvels, and answers to questions"but having learned the Dhamma, they do not examine the meaning of those teachings with wisdom. Not examining the meaning of those teachings with wisdom, they do not gain a reflective acceptance of them. Instead they learn the Dhamma only for the sake of criticising others and for winning in debates, and they do not experience the good for the sake of which they learned the Dhamma."
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"As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values."
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"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."
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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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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
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"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."
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"The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive."
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"As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie."
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"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."
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