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Wisdom Quotes


"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."


"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."


"To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly."


"Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding."


"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."


"The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all."


"You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does."


"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."


"Ego=1/Knowledge" More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego."


"True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can."


"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."


"By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property."


"Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority."


"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."


"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."


"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."


"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."


"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem."


"Wisdom is like the moonlight that quietly inspires you."


"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."


"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness."


"All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully."


"There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart."
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