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Wisdom Quotes
"Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected"."
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"The reason a lot of people do ☆not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."
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"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
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"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
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"The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom."
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"Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know."
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"Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection."
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"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
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"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."
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"El sabio puede cambiar de opinion. El necio, nunca."
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"When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?"
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"The world is full of problems and I bet you the problems will continue to exist but what will make you relevant to the world is when you have answers to the questions the world asks. You can only be useful when you have the answers to the questions of the world. The best way you provide solutions and answers to those challenges is through wisdom."
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"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."
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"A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick."
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"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."
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"In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance."
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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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"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth."
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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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"If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness."
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"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."
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"I know the power of speech. I don't talk much."
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"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
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"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
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"A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting s going to strike"."
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"Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold."
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