Wisdom quotes

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  1. We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. Aesop
  2. Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. Zhuangzi
  3. Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing it, what the results might… Chanakya
  4. A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first. Chanakya
  5. The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. Chanakya
  6. Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Chanakya
  7. Whatever is produced in haste goes easily to waste. Saadi
  8. Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles. Korean Proverb
  9. Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. African Proverb
  10. Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are going to fall into the river. Native American Proverb
  11. Cherish youth, but trust old age. Native American Proverb
  12. A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Native American Proverb
  13. The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool invites ruin. Book of Proverbs
  14. Whatever advice you give, be brief. Horace
  15. There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer
  16. Be silent and listen: have you understood that to be wise is to be silent? Pythagoras
  17. Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras
  18. Nothing in excess. Solon
  19. The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes
  20. Study the past if you would define the future. Confucius
  21. When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do… Confucius
  22. Hold fast to the way of antiquity in order to keep in control the realm of today. Lao Tzu
  23. Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. Lao Tzu
  24. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. Buddha
  25. Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: what fault of mine… Marcus Aurelius
  26. To live a good life: we have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no… Marcus Aurelius
  27. All cruelty springs from weakness. Seneca
  28. Better to learn one good thing well than to know many things by halves. Chinese Proverb
  29. A good fortune may forebode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune. Chinese Proverb
  30. The palest ink is better than the best memory. Chinese Proverb
  31. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle
  32. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Aristotle
  33. Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. Lao Tzu
  34. A crooked tree lives its own life, but a straight tree is turned into wood. Chinese Proverb
  35. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. George R.R. Martin
  36. Shielding someone from harm isn't always the way to help them. If you solve every problem for them simply… Author Unknown
  37. 10 Things I Wish I Could Have Told Myself 5 Years Ago. Author Unknown
  38. In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
  39. It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. Patrick Rothfuss

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