"When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves."

Einstein, Albert on spirituality
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"The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving."

Goizueta, Roberto on failure
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on stupidity
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Einstein, Albert on reality
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"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."

Einstein, Albert on problems
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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

Einstein, Albert on mistakes
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"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."

Patton, George S. on failure
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"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."

Patton, George S. on leadership
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"If a man has done his best, what else is there?"

Patton, George S. on effort
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"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."

Saying, Traditional on belief
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"Wise men argue cases, fools decide them."

Anacharsis on argument   

"Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich."

Proverb on law and lawyers   

"Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done."

Bernstein, Al on fools and foolishness
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"Fools can find fault, but they can't act anymore wisely."

Langbien on faults   

"Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion."

Hall, Bishop on extremes and extremists
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"Despair is the conclusion of fools."

Disraeli, Benjamin on doubt
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on dress   

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

Proverb, Chinese on happiness
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"Now is the watchword of the wise."

Proverb on time
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"There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better."

Inge, Dean William R. on change
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"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."

Swift, Jonathan on blush
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"Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good."

Unknown, Source on solitude
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Lincoln, Abraham on fools and foolishness
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"Talk doesn't cook rice."

Proverb, Chinese on action
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"A man grows most tired while standing still."

Proverb, Chinese on work   

"If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him."

Proverb, Chinese on hiring
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"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life."

Unknown, Source on materialism   

"Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."

Shakespeare, William on losers and losing
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"The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it."

Unknown, Source on wisdom   

"A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any."

Unknown, Source on confession   

"Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows."

Unknown, Source on knowledge
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"Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought."

Osler, Sir William on speakers and speaking
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"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."

Wilde, Oscar on contradiction
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"Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on contradiction
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"The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on fools and foolishness
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"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet."

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert on happiness
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