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Wisdom Quotes
"The best is the cheapest."
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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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"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."
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"Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress."
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"What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with you tomorrow."
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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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"Self-education is a lifetime affair. In life, as in science, there are unsuccessful experiments. Difficult personal and professional experiences are not for naught. Every experience contains a lesson. If we do not achieve the results we want and stop searching out solutions, it is not the experiment that is unsuccessful, but the person."
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"A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought."
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"We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery."
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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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"Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats."
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"Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge."
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"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."
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"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom."
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"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."
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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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"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows."
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"There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it."
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"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm."
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"I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that."
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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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"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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"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."
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"There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people."
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"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."
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