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Wisdom Quotes
"Learn from mistakes and set-backs (yours and other people's), pick yourself up, make necessary changes and try again. I once came across a saying that went something like, "The wise learn from the mistakes made by fools! So at some point we all have been fools, I suppose, since we all make mistakes."
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"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
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"Three things you cannot recover in life: the WORD after it's said, the MOMENT after it's missed and the TIME after it's gone. Now you know."
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"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."
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"It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired."
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"What's done is done. What's gone is gone. One of life's lessons is always moving on. It's okay to look back to see how far you've come but keep moving forward."
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"Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of unhappiness."
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"When you live in a glass house,buying curtains for the windows doesn't help."
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"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice."
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"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious."
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"She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy."
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"What you did tonight was clever, Wit said. "You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it."
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"Başkalarının işine burnunu sokmamak, insanın sahip olabileceği bilgeliğin yüzde seksenidir... Kalan yüzde yirmi de pek önemli değildir zaten."
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"I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters."
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"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool."
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"You cannot win your future if you cannot forgive your past."
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"Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.Discipline your mind to think positively to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event."
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"Never make a judgment on a one sided story because people may tell you what they want you to hear, rather than what you need to hear."
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"There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart."
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"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them."
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"I am not imposed upon by fine words, I can see what actions mean."
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"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."
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"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don't listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don't listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what's behind the words."
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"A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding."
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"I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try to understand and try to direct these complicated, powerful forces and at the very end of the struggle you've made no progress at all. That upon discovering that, you've raised to a lofty moral height, and you've accepted your fate, and somehow went on."
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"Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing."
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
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"Never complain about what you permit to be."
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"For any question " regardless of its complexity " there is a clear andsimple answer."
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"Wonder is the seed of knowledge."
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"Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice."
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"Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!"
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