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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. ↗

— Lucille Ball

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ↗

— Archimedes

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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. ↗

— Aristophanes

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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself! ↗

— Idries Shah

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Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, "Where there is no money, there is no learning." The rabbis explain that unless people's stomachs are full and satisfied, they cannot study, grow spiritually, and do good works. ↗

— H.W. Charles

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Conceit spoils the finest genius. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#genius

Memory isn't the defective tape recording you've been led to believe. It's the tape player itself, playing back the tracks of music we select—and sometimes those we don't. ↗

— James P. Kimmel

#music

It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. And why, if this -- and much more than this is true -- why are we yet surprised in the window corner by a sudden vision that the young man in the chair is of all things in the world the most real, the most solid, the best known to us--why indeed? For the moment after we know nothing about him. Such is the manner of our seeing. Such the conditions of our love. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #wisdom #life

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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