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Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 82
If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
Aasif Mandvi
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.
Robert Musil
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Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small
You can do anything, but not everything.
David Allen
Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
Bill Joy
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
Ken Livingstone
Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
As your life goes on you should gain a deeper understanding of the world and the people moving through it; but that might be asking too much.
James Scott
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
William Ralph Inge
