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Wisdom quotes
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
“When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.”