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“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
― Confucius

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
― Milton Berle

“Lost time is never found again.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays