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  A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Success, Spiritual, Yoga

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• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

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• Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

  Timothy Keller

  Friends, Healthy, Together

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.72, Penguin

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• Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

  Edgar Cayce

  Encouraging, Wise, Support

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• By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

  Bayard Taylor

  Riches, Wealth

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.129

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• When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

  Socrates

  Philosophy, Wish, Want

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• Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions... the only assets one can take with him when one dies is one's belief or disbelief

  Harun Yahya

  Islamic, Being Alone, Men

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  I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Real, Soul

  Victor Hugo (1886). “William Shakespeare”

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• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

  Thomas Browne

  Spiritual, Journey, Who I Am

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15

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• The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.

  Paul Brunton

  Self, Understanding, Ego

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”

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• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Success, Education

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Book

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• Look for the answer inside your question.

  Rumi

  Wise, Clever, Looks

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• A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

  Victor Hugo

  Ideas, Mind, Commerce

  Victor Hugo's ppening address to the Peace Congress in Paris, August 21, 1849.

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• Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Lying, Teaching

  "Encore : A Continuing Anthology‬". Book by Smith Dent, p. 309, March 1945.

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• What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

  Chanakya

  Men, Mirrors, Use

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• While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

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• Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Understanding, Accumulation, One Thing

  Donna Jo Napoli (2012). “Bound”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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