Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
~ Doug Larson
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Risk
I do not intend to take dangerous chances, both because I have no wish to get hurt and because a fall would stop my experimenting, which I would not like at all. The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks.
~ Wilbur Wright
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Souvenirs
Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn’t all a dream?
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
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Inlet to the soul
The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
~ Hosea Ballou
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Everyone else
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Decide
Decide! There is nothing in the world so pitiable as an undecided man, who wavers between two feelings, hoping to reconcile them, and does not understand that nothing can unite them.
~ Goethe
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Knowing
This is the game we play: The only thing you really know is what you can put into words.
~ Alan Watts
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Listening
Sit at your desk and listen.
~ Franz Kafka
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Meaning
Those who can’t find anything to live for, always invent something to die for. Then they want the rest of us to die for it too.
~ Lew Welch
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Open to
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
~ Richard Cavett
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Belief
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
~ Ralph Hodgson
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Accumulated
The dead outnumber the living 14 to 1, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril.
~ Niall Ferguson
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Unnecessary
Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.
~ Sebastian Junger
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Reading
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
~ Mark Twain
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Growth
Everyone encourages you to grow up to the point where you can discount your own bad moods. Few encourage you to continue to the point where you can discount society’s bad moods.
~ Paul Graham
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History
History as usually written is quite different from history as usually lived. The historian records the exceptional because it is interesting.
~ Will Durant
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Jealousy
I learned early that people will admire your work more if they are not jealous of you.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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Comforts
Comforts, once gained, become necessities. And if enough of those comforts become necessities, you eventually peel yourself away from any kind of common feeling with the rest of humanity.
~ Sebastian Junger
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A good story
The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thign that can do that is a good story.
~ Richard Powers
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Wisdom
My definition of wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions.
~ Naval Ravikant
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