"In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer."
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"Activity is the only road to knowledge."
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"The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus."
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"Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise."
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"With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities."
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"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
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"Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."
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"For the wise man, every day is a festival."
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"No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist."
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"If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand."
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"A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential."
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"Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with."
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"Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness."
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"To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine."
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"If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it."
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"Oppression makes a wise man mad."
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"Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens."
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"True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems."
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"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."
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"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
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