You are only as wise as your biggest act of foolishness and that is the truth. Read your way through this article for famous cleverness quotations and sayings.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
A library implies an act of faith.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Double think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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