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If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...
A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow
There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me
I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.
No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.
The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants
Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.
What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended
Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
You try too hard. Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run.
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.