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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Wisdom |
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Quotes By subject - Starting with W - Wisdom
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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Author: Plato
Source: The Republic
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[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Author: Khalil Gibran
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Author: Khalil Gibran
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To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Author: Horace
Source: Epistles
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
Author: Confucius
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Author: Khalil Gibran
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