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“A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.”

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Book:Heretics

Source: Heretics

“To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.”

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Book:Mortals and Others

Source: Mortals and Others

“Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.”

Source: The Prince

“All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.”

“Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.”

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Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)