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Wisdom Quotes
"If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses."
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"Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of."
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."
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"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
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"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."
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"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."
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"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
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"Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge."
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"The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament."
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"To understand the universe, look deep into your heart."
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"Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous"
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"We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being."
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"Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom."
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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
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"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."
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"If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom."
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"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."
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"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."
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"To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts."
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"Knowledge is a potential power when we use it to gain wisdom through reflection and careful actions."
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"He who despises a poor man's wisdom has turned away great riches."
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"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
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"You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow."
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"Half a brain is better than none."
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"There are many secrets, don't try to resolve them all."
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"It's easier to conceal wisdom than folly."
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"True education gives you power. Education and experience make you wise."
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