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    “Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.”
    ― General Iroh
    tags: humility, inspirational, pride, shame
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  • #2
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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  • #3
    Henri Poincaré
    “Is is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.”
    ― Henri Poincaré
    tags: french-mathematician
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  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
    48240 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: humility, inspirational, knowledge, serenity
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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  • #7
    Michel de Montaigne
    “There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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  • #8
    “Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”
    ― Warren Wiersbe
    tags: diplomacy, hypocrisy, love, tact, truth, truth-telling
    593 likes

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  • #9
    Plato
    “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”
    ― Plato
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  • #10
    Lemony Snicket
    “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: humor, talking, writers
    4816 likes

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    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-reading
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  • #12
    Adam M. Grant
    “After all, the purpose of learning isn’t to affirm our beliefs; it’s to evolve our beliefs.”
    ― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
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    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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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
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  • #15
    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: fear, life, science, understanding
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
    12139 likes

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  • #17
    Mitch Albom
    “Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story
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  • #18
    Paulo Coelho
    “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: attitude, explain, gossip, life, people, public-opinion, time, wisdom
    4108 likes

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  • #19
    Jimi Hendrix
    “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: wisdom
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  • #20
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: success
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  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
    tags: curiosity, epigram, tabloid-journalism, wisdom
    1474 likes

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  • #22
    “Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
    ― Michael Levine
    tags: wisdom
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  • #23
    “Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: human-nature, power, wisdom
    835 likes

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  • #24
    Gautama Buddha
    “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
    ― Siddhārtha Gautama
    tags: wisdom
    722 likes

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  • #25
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
    7796 likes

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  • #26
    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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  • #27
    Horace Walpole
    “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
    ― Horace Walpole
    tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy
    1611 likes

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  • #28
    C.G. Jung
    “Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: wisdom
    794 likes



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