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When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.
I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.
All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Never does any pride enter the heart of a man except that his intelligence decreases by the same amount.
If you know how to get fun out of the so-called discomforts, then you should know you are on the right lines.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
Two things help to keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.
I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.
What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?
preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]
The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.
Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.