Quotes and sayings about tag  wisdom

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

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• Life

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable

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• Wisdom

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

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• Truth

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

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• Inspirational

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

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• Wisdom

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

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• Wisdom

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

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• Life

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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• Wisdom

Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.

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• Life

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

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• Wisdom

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.

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• Life

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

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• Life

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

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• Wisdom

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

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• Wisdom

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

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• Love

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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• Wisdom

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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• Wisdom

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

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• Wisdom

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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• Wisdom

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

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• Wisdom

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

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• Inspirational

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

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• Life

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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• Inspirational

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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• Wisdom

I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!

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• Wisdom