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Wisdom Quotes
"If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses."
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"Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."
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"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."
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"There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves."
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"Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it."
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"If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees."
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"You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time."
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"Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom."
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"Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience."
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"Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection."
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"Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement."
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"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
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"It's amazing how people can find all the mistakes in the world concerning another person, but look into the mirror every day without making changes within. Stop looking down your nose at others, What does that achieve? We all can make room for improvements. Most of the time it starts with a little attitude adjustment."
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"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
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"When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say, 'The whole world is mine.' "But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us."
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"That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there."
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"The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition."
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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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"I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain."
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"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
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"We call first truths those we discover after all the others."
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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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"To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not."
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"A proverb is much matter distilled into few words."
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"There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it."
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"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
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"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."
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"Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."
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"God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man."
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