A. J. Jacobs Quotes, Wise Quotes, Book Quotes

It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?

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Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.

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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

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Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

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True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

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'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

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Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value.

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Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.

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