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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

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JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

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Common sense is not so common.

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You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are.

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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

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It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

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Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

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I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

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