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    “The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: advice, bran, bran-stark, darkness, the-greenseer
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    Lou Holtz
    “Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”
    ― Lou Holtz
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, complaining, remaining-silent
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  • #3
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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  • #6
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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  • #7
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    tags: remaining-silent, reticence, wisdom
    266 likes

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  • #8
    Euripides
    “The wisest men follow their own direction.”
    ― Euripides
    tags: wise
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  • #9
    Lin Yutang
    “Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.”
    ― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
    tags: busy, chinese-philosopher, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, wise
    142 likes

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  • #10
    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
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  • #11
    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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  • #12
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world
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  • #13
    John Green
    “Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: depressing, humor, wise
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  • #14
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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  • #15
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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  • #18
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: ambition, bullying, character, moral-courage
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  • #19
    Steve Martin
    “Be so good they can't ignore you.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: hater, haters, life
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  • #21
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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  • #21
    “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
    ― Nicholas Klein
    tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial
    9386 likes



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