That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
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Tagged: Wisdom
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
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You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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