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Wisdom Quotes
"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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"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior."
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"That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it."
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"If you look at it, life is like one big series of lessons, that starts the moment we are born."
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"We call first truths those we discover after all the others."
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"Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time..."
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"That which is worth telling is not worth having."
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"You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it."
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"There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source."
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"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values."
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"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
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"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."
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"Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother."
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"If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance."
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"Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing."
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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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"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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"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
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"It is not wise to abandon a belief purely due to peer pressure."
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"It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good."
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"If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?"
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"An artist adopts a radically different view regarding the importance of time than a businessperson does. Instead of perceiving time as a merchantable facet doled out incrementally according to marketplace demands, an artist portrays time as an agent of destruction. The irrevocability of time frames the human condition. Time might the medium of all human experience, but its passage obscures and eventually obliterates all human endeavors. Time unchecked leads to a blank slate of nothingness. Time's destructive march towards meaningless is arrested through memory and art depicting humankind's struggles and accomplishments."
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"I take all knowledge to be my province."
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"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
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"What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told."
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"Never play a blame game. Your feet are aching because you put them into a tight shoe... Nobody has it on; it's you who have it on! Your aims will help you to get out of trouble games, but not your blames!"
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"Friar Laurence:O, mickle is the powerful grace that liesIn herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought to vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give; nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified."
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"We do not know the details in a day. How can we foretell the happenings in distant time."
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"The highest form of wisdom comes from deep observation, kind realization, and curious actualization."
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"There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment."
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"Intelligence is naked without wisdom. Wisdom dresses interestingly with intelligence."
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