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Wisdom Quotes
"Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous"
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"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
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"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others."
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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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"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
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"Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively."
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"Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge."
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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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"The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal."
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"If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without."
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"Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns."
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"Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it."
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"God's principles work whether we believe them or not."
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"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted."
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"At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things."
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"Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young."
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"The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend."
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"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."
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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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"In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same."
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"Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know."
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"What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with you tomorrow."
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"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
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"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."
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"Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality."
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