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Wisdom Quotes
"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
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"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."
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"I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity."
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"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."
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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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"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
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"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."
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"When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say, 'The whole world is mine.' "But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us."
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"Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous"
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"God's principles work whether we believe them or not."
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"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."
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"Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it."
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"Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live."
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"It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them."
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"Ignorance is an illusion, we seek understanding. Compassion paves the way towards understanding and understanding paves the way towards acceptance."
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"Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality."
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"To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty."
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"Reason deserves to be called a prophet for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present does it not tell us what the future will be?"
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"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
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"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others."
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"I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views."
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"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
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"He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."
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"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
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"Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense."
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"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."
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