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Wisdom Quotes
"Well,' said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return once more to London, 'it has been a pretty business for me! I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained?''Experience,' said Holmes, laughing. 'Indirectly it may be of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your existence."
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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."
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"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body."
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"Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life."
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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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"There are many secrets, don't try to resolve them all."
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"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."
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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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"Each of us channel through the rest of us, which is true on every plane of being and in every field of enterprise and in all walks of life."
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"We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being."
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"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."
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"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."
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"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."
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"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others."
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"If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom."
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"It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst."
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"The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom."
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"If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance."
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"Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."
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"Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny."
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"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
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