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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: books, honesty, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
    tags: epigram, paradox, truth, wisdom
    2151 likes

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    George Orwell
    “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
    ― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950
    tags: humanity, truth, wisdom
    1280 likes

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    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder
    2019 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: american-presidents, freedom, slavery, wisdom
    1579 likes

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    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
    8469 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom
    2014 likes

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    Brian Tracy
    “Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”
    ― Brian Tracy
    tags: be-yourself, life, remaining-silent, reticence, wisdom
    1604 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: existentialism, life, philosophy, wisdom
    749 likes

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    Shannon Hale
    “Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”
    ― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
    tags: understanding-others, wisdom
    615 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
    3562 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
    What's a sundial in the shade?”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: talent, wisdom, work
    824 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: freedom, morality, politics, wisdom
    1429 likes

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    William James
    “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
    ― William James
    tags: wisdom
    964 likes

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    Brian Tracy
    “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
    Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?”
    ― Brian Tracy
    tags: benevolence, greed, life, wisdom
    1049 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”
    ― Mark Twain, Notebook
    tags: happiness, inspiration, life, wisdom
    488 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: decisiveness, inaction, just-do-it, timidity, wisdom
    1303 likes

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    Brian Tracy
    “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
    toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
    than allowing it to master you.”
    ― Brian Tracy
    tags: life, wisdom
    671 likes

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: life, philosophy, wisdom
    1448 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: lincoln, mother, wisdom
    806 likes

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    Scott Adams
    “Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.”
    ― Scott Adams
    tags: advice, fish, food, humor, wisdom
    304 likes

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    Eric Idle
    “Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.”
    ― Eric Idle
    tags: comedy, humor, life, wisdom
    314 likes

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    Jarod Kintz
    “Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, Great Listener Seeks Mute Women
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    William Shakespeare
    “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: shakespeare
    786 likes

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    Jarod Kintz
    “I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dyeing my hair tonight.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
    1465 likes

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    William Blake
    “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
    534 likes

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    Euripides
    “Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”
    ― Euripides
    tags: wisdom
    373 likes

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  • #29
    Brian Tracy
    “Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.”
    ― Brian Tracy
    tags: life, wisdom
    249 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
    ― Hemingway, Ernest
    tags: death, honesty, life, truth, wisdom
    602 likes

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  • #31
    Homer
    “How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
    ― Homer
    tags: wisdom
    287 likes



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