"Learn the words of wisdom uttered by..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.
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“There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.”
“Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.”
“Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.”
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“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.”
“Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.”
“It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.”
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“One should never know too precisely whom one has married”
“the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind”
“When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.”