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Wisdom Quotes
"Forgiveness is remembering the truth of who you are."
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"If your ears are bigger than your mouth, you will go very far in life."
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"My career still strikes me as miraculous. That a boy raised on Marine bases in the South, taught by Roman Catholic nuns in backwater Southern towns that loathed Catholics, and completed his education with an immersion into The Citadelthe whole story sounds fabricated, impossible even to me. Maybe especially to me."
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"Wisdom is intelligence set on fire."
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"What some people need," said Magrat, to the world in general, "is a bit more heart."What some people need," said Granny Weatherwax, to the stormy sky, "is a lot more brain."Then she clutched at her hat to stop the wind from blowing i."
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"I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it."
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"What you see as not neededWill return until you see that it needs to be.What you accept as neededNeeds not to remain unless you enjoy it to be."
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"The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought!"
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"Listening to music, reading literature, writing, and extended periods of personal introspection provide four prongs of the incitements available to form a conscious and subconscious designation of self. Other potential incentives that contribute to self-identity include religion and cultural events as well as painting, sculpture, dance, films, newspapers, television, Internet surfing, web sites, and online message boards."
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"Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be."
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"Seek knowledge, getting as much of it as you can and meditate on it, then you will become ahappy possessor of wisdom."
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"In each generation, there is this certain wisdom of the ages that gets reburied in the fleeting drivels of modernity; then, like a diamond in the rough, it is yet again unearthed by a very small minority who not only restores it, but also polishes it and presents it as something new, something highly valuable and refreshing as understood by the current."
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"There is no gem like virtue, no wealth like happiness, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like love."
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"A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give."
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"When you live by the demands and supply of life, Life stops being a mystery to you."
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"Intelligence opens the door to the universe, but only wisdom walks through."
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"In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men."
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"People are intelligent, it is their ideas that are stupid."
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"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost."
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"The distance between two minds is understanding."
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"A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears."
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"There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit."
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"There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through conscious thought."
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"Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."
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"In reality, everyone is unlimited. All limits are simply illusions. Understanding is the breeze that sweeps them away."
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"What values do achievement, degrees, and diplomas have if you don't have wisdom and love?"
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"He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid."
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"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after."
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"A cup of wisdom is more valuable than an ocean of intelligence."
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"Don't waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower."
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"Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty."
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