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“We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests into account. Co-operation comes from friendship, friendship comes from trust, and trust comes from kind-heartedness. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.”

Needs Kind Self Interest Rooms Wise Trust Concern Accounts Driven Genuine Operations Generous Cheating Bullying Exploitation Self Interest Concern For Others

Author:Dalai Lama

“It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.”

Turns Wise Circumstances Accounts

Book:Aesop's Fables: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections

Source: Aesop's Fables: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections

“Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free us from their impertinent solicitations. I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument ... which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred and profane.”

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

“Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own.”

Men Reason Wisdom Wise Willing Accounts Foolish Proportion Folly Suspects Conceit Foolish Man

Author:John Balguy

“Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.”

Knows Play Lasts Form Results Wise Flower Civilization Offers Conversation Accounts Cups Repentance Reproduction

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.”

Ifs Knows May Enough Purpose Wise Our Lives Accounts Perseverance Missions Fulfilled

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“Around the world, we see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Protecting the world's forests; stemming desertification and erosion; avoiding the spread of toxic substances harmful to man, animals and plants; protecting the atmosphere; all these can be accomplished only through active and wise cooperation, without borders or political power plays.”

“Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. If such small indiscretions standing in the debit column of wine's account were added up, they would amount to nothing in comparison with the vast accumulation on the credit side.”

“What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.”

Kind Children Would Be Care Parent Family Wise Anxiety Accounts Virtuous Toil Being Wise Benevolent Affectionate

Book:The Quotable Abigail Adams

Source: The Quotable Abigail Adams

“Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account.”

Humans Ends Use Government Individual Given Roles Clear Wise Subjects Accounts Temptation Critique

Author:N. T. Wright

“All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.”

Giving Reason Science Poor Laughing Wise Judging Accounts Agree Credit Ignorant Deceit Manifest Despise Vulgar Astrology Pretence Foretelling

Book:The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates, with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory

Source: The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates, with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory

“Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like.”

Littles Science Found Water Wise Judging Thousand Creatures Accounts Green Wounds Smallest Cheese Floating Particles Examining Serpent Streaks Mould Flour

Author:Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”

Men Philosophy Able Science Natural Moral Wise Poet Logic Accounts Mathematics Witty Math Graves Subtle Rhetoric Natural Philosophy

Author:Francis Bacon

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