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"935 Wisdom Quotes

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Battles Enemy Know Self
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There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Been Country Never Protracted
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Praise Out Season Tactlessly
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Learn Mind Something Wisest
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Almost Balance Every Less
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Disillusionment Wisdom Comes By
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There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

There Something Very Intriguing
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People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

People Seem Forget One
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To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

Have Liberal Temperament Kind
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The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

True Hypocrite Knows He
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

Been First Give God
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The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Confuses Even Feeling He
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I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Actually Anybody Else Frequently
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Considerable Extent Ignorance Just
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Basic Best Decide Most
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Also Animal Brains Egotistical
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

Been Best Done Has-Been
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The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

Less Squeeze You Tighter
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Head Heart Wisdom
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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Goals Inspire Lazy People
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

Convert Go Guide Hand
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Wise Deal Fool Great
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Duty Enemy Even Guard
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Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Earth Food Knowledge Man
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Knowledge Shouting True True Knowledge
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Knowledge Origins Our Perceptions
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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Accomplish Being Being Honest Best
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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

Charge Companies Kinds Less
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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

According Action Acts Afterwards
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To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Know Knowledge True
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Hereditary Ought Planning Posterity
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Enlightenment Knowing Others Wisdom
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If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Choice Everybody Father Had
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If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.
Meaningful Say Something Want
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Does Gives He His
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Less Men Ought Than
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Advance Affairs Could Days
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Believe Collective Ignorance Individual
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The biggest accolades aren't the Grammys for me. It's creating opportunities for people.
Accolades Biggest Creating Grammys
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Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Beginning End Logic Wisdom
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Authority Law Makes Wisdom
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They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

They Say It Is
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I want people to hear what I have to say, and I want to be able to get a lot of points across.

Able Across Get Hear
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Able Commend Him Man
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The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

Always Am Barriers Blocks
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Far Find Go Going
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Adversity Appreciation Become Destroys
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Beyond Both Either Existence
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
Favorites General Office Same
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Our philosophy is that we care about people first.
About Care First Our
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