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#1

“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”
― Herman Melville

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#2

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#3

“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: esoteric-wisdom, metaphysics, rumi

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#4

“As is the way in political matters, all were convinced that the interests of the community and their own personal interests were one and the same”
― Lesley Hazleton, After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam

tags: interests, opportunism, politics

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#5

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#6

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#7

“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.”
― Gautama Buddha

tags: truth

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#8

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#9

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

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#10

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

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#11

“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
― John Dryden

tags: revenge, warning

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#12

“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”
― John Dryden

tags: adaptation, change, habit, self-improvement

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#13

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: attraction, rumi, sufi

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#14

“Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. ”
― John Dryden

tags: temptation

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#15

“But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much.”
― John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

tags: poetry

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#16

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― John Dryden

tags: john-dryden

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#17

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#18

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#19

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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#20

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom

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#21

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

tags: wisdom

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#22

“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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#23

“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: wisdom

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#24

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

tags: education, experience, wisdom

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#25

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

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#26

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: communication, foolishness, knowledge, sharing, teaching, wisdom

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#27

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
― Anne Bradstreet

tags: authority, brute-force, force, oppression, wisdom

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#28

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains

tags: common-sense, wisdom

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#29

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom

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