Wisdom Quotes and Quotations
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
Lao Tzu
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
Lao Tzu
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
Lao Tzu
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Never laugh at live dragons.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Søren Kierkegaard
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When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
Yukio Mishima
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Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.
Paulo Coelho
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
Khaled Hosseini
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
Heraclitus
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus
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Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Nelson Mandela
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Plato