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Wisdom Quotes
"I'm a witch. It's what we do. When it's nobody else's business, it's my business."
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"It is too late! Ah, nothing is too lateTill the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.Cato learned Greek at eighty; SophoclesWrote his grand Oedipus, and SimonidesBore off the prize of verse from his compeers,When each had numbered more than fourscore years,And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten,Had but begun his Characters of Men.Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales,At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales;Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last,Completed Faust when eighty years were past,These are indeed exceptions; but they showHow far the gulf-stream of our youth may flowInto the arctic regions of our lives.Where little else than life itself survives."
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"Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words."
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"Think about rethinking what you're thinking, before speaking the thought you were thinking, and cause unintended consequences for speaking what you probably shouldn't have been thinking."
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"Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not."
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"Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent."
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"In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life."
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"Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care."
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"Avoid chasing after the never ending deluge of potential trinkets."
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"There's a dignity in consequences."
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"I think your vision gets better as you get older."
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"Less is more, especially in relationships. You must understand and appreciate the importance of quality in relationships over quantity."
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"Empty complaints are the sources of everyday failure, but not the problem being complained about. Problems are solvable; but not with complaints. A complainer is just an explainer of problems!"
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"The more you learn, the more you know there is still alot more to learn't."
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"Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens. Wisdom grows not by sitting in peace and solitude in meditation, but by confronting the storms of the past, and studying what triggered them so that we can prevent them from happening again."
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"Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise."
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"It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire."
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"Asking questions is an essential daily habit, because your experiences are often in proportion to the questions you ask."
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"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
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"Light is formless, but pierces the eyes. Wisdom is formless, but pierces the mind. Faith is formless, but pierces the heart. Love is formless, but pierces the soul."
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"Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well."
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"The teachings of the Buddha could be summarized in four short sentences. ... [The Buddha] said ...The bad things, don't do them.The good things, try to do them.Try to purify, subdue your own mind.That is the teaching of all buddhas."
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"I've never, nor shall I ever, mourn the loss of a fool. Losing a fool, is the same as gaining, retaining, and reaffirming my intelligence."
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"A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining."
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"The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact."
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"Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner."
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"Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!"
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"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."
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