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Wise Thoughts Quotes

“Capture my heart and my mind. Become my ultimate challenge, greatest vexation, strongest desire, and most precious blessing.”

“Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.”

“When it's your time you will walk right into your blessing.”

“A wise person strives to reach self-transcendence by engaging in delicate contemplation, while avoiding the snare of self-denigration’s negative invocation. An overshadowing sense of a caustic self can be destructive, whereas an encircling sense of a kindhearted self allows a person to express the profundity and elation of a feral creature curiously exploring nature’s glorious playground.”

“People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish”

“Moses Luzzatto always said to be patient during the hard times, that they would have to endure and make sacrifices while they waited for better times to come. He urged Simone and the other Jewish boys not to provoke the Venetians, saying they should remain separate and focus on their work. He said their traditions were crucial to their identity, just as they were for their fathers before them.”

“Calm is the best revenge”

“A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them”

“True understanding lies beyond the desert”

“Know the laws before you break them”

“Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it”

“True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave”

“Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married couples to have sex”

“It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great”

“If there is no reward, there is no reason to run”

“You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there”

“If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard”

“The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit”

“We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our hero”

“If you think you can't, you're wrong and right”

“You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster”

“The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself”

“Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you”

“You are what you believe”