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Wisdom Quotes
"There is an optical illusion about every person we meet."
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"Do you know, I am putting off ending this letter as though the end would be the end of something I want to hold on to. That's not true of course - just a feeling like the quick one of hexing your trip so you couldn't go. The mind is capable of any selfishness and it thinks unworthy things whether you want it or not. Best to admit it is a bad child rather than to pretend it is always a good one. Because a bad child can improve but a good one is a liar and nothing can improve a liar."
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"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day."
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"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."
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"A foolish rabbit is endeared by a foxes' smile."
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"The best way to acquire wisdom is by perceptual realization."
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"We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."
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"When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again."
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"Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way."
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"No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools."
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"So many people have understanding, but in reality, they don't really understand understanding! When you really understand understanding, you get a real understanding!"
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"Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise."
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"Avoid a wasteful life and make each unit of time count."
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"Experience is a question of instinct about life."
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"Don't conclude so fast, you may never know what is behind the fact you know!"
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"A complicated idea is a confused idea."
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"Knowledge is a power that you can borrow trust is a power which defines your inner strength."
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"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."
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"Bend the rules only if you have learned them, break the rules only if you have mastered them."
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"Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish."
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"It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it."
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"In thoughts, be wise. In speech, be cautious. In sentiment, be positive. In actions, be prudent."
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"A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the people around him."
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"Don't climb a mountain to look down on people below, but to get a clearer view of the stars above."
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"A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred."
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"She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear."
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"To gain wisdom, you must not only acquire knowledge, but you must assimilate it within your being."
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