"The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy."
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"Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone."
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"Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish."
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"We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests into account. Co-operation comes from friendship, friendship comes from trust, and trust comes from kind-heartedness. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation."
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"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."
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"Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking."
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"The wisest have the most authority."
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say"
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"All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another."
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"Enough is abundance to the wise."
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"A man in a passion, rides a mad horse."
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"The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don't. It's just that simple."
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"I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself."
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"If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains"
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"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will."
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"Compassion is the basis of morality."
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"Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast."
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"It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower."
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"Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?"
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"Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later."
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