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Wisdom Quotes
"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."
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"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
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"What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?""Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced - from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination."
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"Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing system that is far more precise and far more accurate and far more powerful than anything that is contained in the boundaries of rational thought."
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"Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons."
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"When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION."
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"Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments..."
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"When I was foolish, I detested sagacity. I ate the fruits of my foolishness and ignorance. I thank God because I was once foolish. It was from my foolishness that I learnt and understood the true savour of sagacity."
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"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
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"But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need."
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"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."
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"It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness."
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"No one is perfect and we all make mistakes, but not all of us admit to mistakes made."
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"An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils"."
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"Don't waste your time trying to win people over that can never be won over."
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"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best."
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"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."
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"Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, 'The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything.' Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba."
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"Whilst your memory is as sharp as the most reliable computer, it is always wiser to write things down. Pre-meditation helps the refining process, taking out the undesirable elements from a dream or vision, even mounting the courage to face and overcome challenges before they appear in reality."
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"There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part."
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"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
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"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."
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"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
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"Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature."
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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."
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