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Wisdom Quotes
"Ask yourself:Am I living my past, present or future?"
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"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."
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"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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"The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent."
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"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge."
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"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
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"A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom."
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"Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know."
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"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
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"Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively."
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."
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"To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it."
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"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, - 'Wait and hope.' " Your friend, Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo. The eyes of both were fixed on the spot indicated by the sailor, and on the blue-line separating the sky from the Mediterranean Sea, they perceived a large white sail."
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"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
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"Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!"
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"What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with you tomorrow."
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"To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty."
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"You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow."
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"Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true."
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"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."
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"Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times."
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"Simplicity is the best strategy.Reciprocity is the best policy."
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"In terms of experience, we want to make this (referring to the self) very pleasant. We want this to be blissful, ecstatic. But, as I said before, even being ecstatic is not goal by itself. If you are blissful by your own nature, then the important thing is that you are no more the issue. There are other issues in this existence; we can look at those. But if you are an issue, what other issue will you take in your hands? You will not touch anything. When I am enough trouble myself, why do I want to take on this one or that one? When I am no more an issue, now I am willing to dig into the whole existence and see what it is all about."
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"A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting s going to strike"."
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"An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'"
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"Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality."
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"The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene."
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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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"Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness!"
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