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Wisdom Quotes
"If a transaction in progress appeared threatened with failure, if a shipment of goods seemed to have gone astray, or if a debtor appeared unable to repay his debt, Kamaswami was never able to persuade Siddhartha that it was useful to speak words of worry or of anger, to have a wrinkled brow, or to sleep poorly."
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"To be intelligent, be complex; to be wise, be simple."
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"The longer the waiting, the longer the wondering."
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"Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks."
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"Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table-it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket-that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep."
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"Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;Which therein works a miracle in nature,Making them lightest that wear most of it:So are those crisped snaky golden locksWhich make such wanton gambols with the wind,Upon supposed fairness, often knownTo be the dowry of a second head,The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.Thus ornament is but the guiled shoreTo a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarfVeiling an Indian beauty; in a word,The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest."
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"Our worldly wisdom has made us calloused and hard. Our natural wisdom, as the Scriptures teach, comes not from God, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish."
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"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."
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"The Book of Wisdom. Simab said: 'I shall sell the Book of Wisdom for a hundred gold pieces, and some people will say that it is cheap.' Yunus Marmar said to him: 'And I shall give away the key to understanding it, and almost none shall take it, even free of charge."
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"I am continually coming back to the belief that I know nothing, or that there are much deeper places to go with what I think I know. It's liberating, actually. I don't think the biggest questions can be answered with any certainty. I'm becoming more and more peaceful not knowing."
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"Forgiveness is the best way to disempower the enemy."
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"The wisest people are often the simplest."
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"All things change nothing is extinguished."
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"An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things."
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"But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views' do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think; and that politics are relatively unimportant, while principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them."
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"If you want to make room for something new, you must let go of something old that no longer serves you."
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"True enlightenment is when you know that you're nobody and that you are an interplay and display of perplexing energy."
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"Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side."
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"Results are what you expect consequences are what you get."
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"It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance."
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"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking."
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"Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention."
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"Your action is your lot."
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"Pray for wisdom to deal with whatever is worrying you. Pray that God will act to change the circumstances according to His will. He doesn't always do what we want Him to-but He knows what's best for us, and He can be trusted."
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"I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened."
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"The magic, grace, growth and wonder of life is that wisdom follows a fall and defeat not from a win."
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"Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery."
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"The knowledge or information from different source can be misunderstood, unless you experience life, within. All the wisdom and bliss comes from within, and you can have, all the answers of life, when you look inside."
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"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."
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"A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a genius in life."
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"Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life."
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"Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you."
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"I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do."
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"The second step that comes right after taking responsibility for everything that occurs in your life is to let go of all that you do not feel good about."
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"I see a lot of people complaining about the things they can fix, and a lot of people being accepting of the things they cannot change. Maybe tragedy really is the catastrophic event, for the way people view their lives. I would rather be wise, than nieve."
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"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."
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"There is always a right answer for every question, even for the wrong ones."
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