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Wisdom Quotes
"That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"Don't judge me by my mistakes, judge me by the implications they had."
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"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."
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"Invest time, energy, and money into increasing your knowledge and wisdom so you can become the best you can be " it's the best investment you could make."
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"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear."
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"She thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."
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"Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books."
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"Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely."
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"There are some who deploy casual wisdom for the purpose of engaging."
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"Failure is only the name that we give to our mistakes."
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"Silence is a prince's friend."
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"The would-be students wish to transcend books.But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and yet he writes books; books do not contain Sufism, and yet he continues to publish books on Sufism, what is really happening? It really is your duty, and not mine, to ask and to find the answer to that question, if you are interested enough."
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"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
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"When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace I experienced in my life."
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"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."
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"Wisdom is knowing when you have enough."
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"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."
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"If the past could be changed, it would not exist. If the future could be stopped, it would not survive. If the present could be avoided, it would not prevail."
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"A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know."
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"Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing."
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"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."
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"Knowledge isn't life changing. The application of knowledge is."
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"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."
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"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."
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"Tis but a part we see, and not a whole."
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"Empathy is the door to wisdom."
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"The paradox of challenges, we become what we ought to be."
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"What you think is a seed, what you say is the bud, and what you do is the fruit."
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"Our minds sometimes think best when fueled by another brain's thought. Be willing to consider what someone else thinks before you decide what you think. That way you can know what you think and why you think it."
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"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
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