Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Wise Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

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To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

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...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

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The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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Wisdom at times is found in folly.

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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

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He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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"If You Would Take, You Must First Give, This Is The Beginning Of Intelligence."

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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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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

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Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.

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