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Wisdom Quotes
"Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age."
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"There is no method but to be very intelligent."
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"We think our fathers fools so wise we grow Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so."
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"People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves."
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"Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures."
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"Some are weather-wise some are otherwise."
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"But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong."
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"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
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"In the life of mathematics two plus two makes four, but in the mathematics of life two and two can make five or even three sometimes."
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"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
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"The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines."
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"To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple."
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"He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of books."
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"One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things " is that not a sage indeed?"
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"When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight."
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"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day."
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"Once your soul is awakened, you never return to the sleepwalking state of mind. Some people become complacent in life. They are just going through the motions and not aware of truth. Seek the knowledge, wisdom, and the understandings that vivify your existence."
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"Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise enough with age to give a little, rather than put up stubborn resistance until they broke. I could probably stand to learn something from that."
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"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"
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"I know that I know nothing."
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"I am not imposed upon by fine words, I can see what actions mean."
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"When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again."
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"Many mistakes makes for a very smart person."
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"Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way."
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"When you are able to know the right thing, you are intelligent. But when you choose that right thing to do, you are wise. This means people can get money, education, marriage, and good health and not get wisdom. Wisdom is the number one gift for a Godly success."
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"A wise person strives to reach self-transcendence by engaging in delicate contemplation, while avoiding the snare of self-denigration's negative invocation. An overshadowing sense of a caustic self can be destructive, whereas an encircling sense of a kindhearted self allows a person to express the profundity and elation of a feral creature curiously exploring nature's glorious playground."
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"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
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