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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat e...”
“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
“Wise? No, I simply learned to think.”
“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles...”
“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
“I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”
“Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. ”
