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Wisdom Quotes
"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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"Ask yourself:Am I living my past, present or future?"
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"Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold."
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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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"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."
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"There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment."
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"Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected"."
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"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."
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"If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance."
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"The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism."
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"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."
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"Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress."
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"If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible."
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"Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all."
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"Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him."
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"I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity."
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"Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times."
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"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."
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"Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools."
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"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."
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"This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom."
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"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."
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"The highest form of wisdom comes from deep observation, kind realization, and curious actualization."
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"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
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"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
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"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."
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"Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats."
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"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
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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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"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."
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