Famous Quotes: Wisdom

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
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I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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I have no wisdom to share on dating.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
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