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- Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
- Chazal
- There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
- Frederika Bremer
- To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
- South
- The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
- Author Unknown
- If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
- Author Unknown
- The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
- Samuel Smiles
- Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.
- Bible, Proverbs, 4:7
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