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Wisdom Quotes
"When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man."
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"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
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"Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world's language, that it's different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn't speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn't it at all. She said she meant the language of the rocks and growing things, the language you don't hear just with your ears. And I said that's what Dr. Yueh calls the Mystery of Life. Hawat chuckled. "How'd that sit with her? "I think she got mad. She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. So I quoted the First Law of Mentat at her: 'A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.'Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future."
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"No matter how much experience you have, there's always something new you can learn and room for improvement."
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"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
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"Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness, they don't need the approval of others."
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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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"Who taught you all this, doctor?"The reply came promptly:"Suffering."
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"The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by 'the veil of familiarity.' The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story, by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it."
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"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."
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"While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom."
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"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom."
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"Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks."
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"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
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"Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion."
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"One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally."
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"A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope."
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"Christ said there is a happiness in that acknowledgement of spiritual poverty which lets God come into our souls."
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"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria."
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"Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always choose to learn from others."
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"Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy."
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"Each one comes to their own understanding and recognition of truth in their own time, not in yours."
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"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."
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"It is better to find your courage to make changes when you can choose to rather than being forced to. If you do not make change, change will make you."
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"Adding your own piece of knowledge to the vast knowledge of the humanrace could be a sufficient reason for having existed."
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"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
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"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."
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