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"935 Wisdom Quotes

What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.
Stands Higher Action Silence
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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
Opportunity Miss Broadcast Tune
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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Also Courage Faith Full
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Harder Him Inferiority Man
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True nobility is exempt from fear.

Exempt Fear Nobility True
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Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

Sanctify Yourself Will You
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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
People Realise Immense Value
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...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.

Every Person Star Has
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I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.
Want Don't Tree Meaning
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Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

Actually Other Way Round
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

Give Them They Want
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Bad Word Colleague Darken
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

You Wish Glimpse Inside
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
You Can Sincere Still
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A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

Wisdom.Knowledge Proof Hundred Suspicion Suspicions
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Common More Nothing Sense
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Book Curious Good Good Book
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Always Am Fraud Gentleman
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Fool Tell Truth Want
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Laws Making Must Respect
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Cannot Communicate Knowledge
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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Art Breathing Capacity Every
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Delay Everything Folly Hasten
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Anyone Enemy Even Learn
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You will go most safely in the middle.
Go Middle Most Safely
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Time, the devourer of all things.
Time Devourer Things The
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Exceptions Knows Man Old
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Have the courage to act instead of react.

Act Courage Instead React
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Before Carve Clearly Every
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Advice Bad Bad Example Example
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Battle Join Man More
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Advice Cannot Give Profit
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In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Beauty Rare Wisdom Youth
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Criticism Deceives Few Few People
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What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Because Call Exercise Fond
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Folly He Lives Thinks
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

Another Better Grow Ideas
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Also Condemn Everything Pardon
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
After Light Rarely Sought
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Come Conscience Credibility Evidence
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Able Also Enemies Friends
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Controversy Fools Know Men
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Body Deepest More Philosophy
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Abstract Beauty Future Past
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Knowledge Listen Privilege Province
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Money Put Trust Your
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Deceive Integrity May Never
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Being Cannot Gets Good
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Any dog can be aggressive; it's basically the way they're raised.

Dog Any Aggresive Basically
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The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

Caution Enlightened Full General
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