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Wisdom Quotes
"Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything."
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"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."
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"I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them."
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"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
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"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach..."
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"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."
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"Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely."
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"Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly."
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"I met a man; broken as can be, A smile upon his face; no shoes upon his feet,He said one thing " young one , you listen clear"The choices you make now; will always reappear,Live to your heart but do wrong to none,Because when your old like me; you'll remember all you have done."
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"Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies..."
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"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
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"What's done is done. What's gone is gone. One of life's lessons is always moving on. It's okay to look back to see how far you've come but keep moving forward."
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"The presence of pain should not be the reason for your low self-image. Boldness is the ability to stand tall even when the valley seems deep. Your pain will bring gain. Just believe and go to work!"
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"Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history; nature, second. Folly is the worst speaker in history; fools, second."
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"Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?"
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"There were always men who looked beyond the dimensions of their own society- and while they may have been called fools or criminals in their time they are the roster of great men as far as the record of human history is concerned- and visualized something which can be called universally human and which is not identical with what a particular society assumes human nature to be. There were always men who were bold and imaginative enough to see beyond the frontiers of their own existence."
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"Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them."
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"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool."
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"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
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"Sages shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them."
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"La vida solo puede ser entendida mirando hacia atrás, aunque deba ser vivida mirando hacia adelante."
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"We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune."
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"Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing."
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"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."
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"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."
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"Behind our wise words lie rare jewels; behind our reckless ones, bombs."
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"We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."
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"Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!"
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"No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools."
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