Quotes and sayings about tag  wisdom

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

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I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

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To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

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Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

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• Life

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

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When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

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Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

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