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Wisdom Quotes
"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."
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"Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness."
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"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."
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"Self consciousness is the ultimate wisdom of life."
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"Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn't measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It's not winning battles that makes you happy, but it's how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most, most, most important ones, let the rest go."
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"I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me in trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in."
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"We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him."
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"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."
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"Don't judge me by my mistakes, judge me by the implications they had."
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"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."
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"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."
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"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."
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"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."
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"Tis but a part we see, and not a whole."
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"The paradox of challenges, we become what we ought to be."
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"It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."
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"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
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"It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always."
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"You can resolve any situation with wisdom."
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"Availability of knowledge is only next to prevalence of stupidity in its overwhelming abundance."
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"Nature to all things fixed the limits fitAnd wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit.As on the land while here the ocean gains.In other parts it leaves wide sandy plainsThus in the soul while memory prevails,The solid power of understanding failsWhere beams of warm imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt awayOne science only will one genius fit,So vast is art, so narrow human witNot only bounded to peculiar arts,But oft in those confined to single partsLike kings, we lose the conquests gained before,By vain ambition still to make them moreEach might his several province well command,Would all but stoop to what they understand."
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