All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom
“After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will.”
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“For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress — to the future.”
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“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.”
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“Just because you’re in a situation, doesn’t mean you have to be that situation. You’re not the situation you’re in!”
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“the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.”
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“It is man’s unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!”
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“The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it’s useless even to try”
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“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
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“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
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“The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.”
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“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHTI was born the dayI thought:What is?What was?AndWhat if?I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.I really came into beingThe day I no longer cared aboutWhat the world thought of me,Only on my thoughts forChanging the world.”
“How many people you bless is how you measure success”
“He’s acting as foolish as a kitten… but then, everyone’s entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.”
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“See, the ‘small stuff’ is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is distorted. They ignore ‘small stuff,’ claiming to have an eye on the bigger picture, never understanding that the bigger picture is composed of nothing more than-are you ready?- ‘small stuff’.”
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