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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in…
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Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I…
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark…
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend…
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Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely…
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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does…
— Saint Basil
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
— Albert Camus
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The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of…
— Bruce Lee
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To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
— Michael Novak
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To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance…
— Unknown Author
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It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
— Laozi
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means…
— Sydney J. Harris
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert…
— Albert Camus
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Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?
— Carl Van Vechten
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It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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