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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.
The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.
The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.
There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.
You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.
Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.
Love should be pure. If you have love for someone you won't see bad points of the other person, never.
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.
No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.
Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless.
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.
Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.