The nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist
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― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist
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A lot is said about the serious by the fact that the most intelligent person around is almost always the most playful.
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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If there is any correlation between the intellectual and the wise, it is that intellectuals tend to have less wisdom that those of much lesser academic credentials.
― H. Melvin James
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― H. Melvin James
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You'll learn more about life from the stand-up of a responsible comedian than from the literature of an egotistical intellectual.
― Abhijit Naskar
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― Abhijit Naskar
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Only idiots are confident. It requires a great amount of wisdom and knowledge to be confused.
― Abhishek Leela Pande
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― Abhishek Leela Pande
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Removing misunderstandings from the mind is also a part of intellectual development!
― Habib Bilal
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― Habib Bilal
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her?
Humans are full of contradictions.
--Ai Yazawa
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Humans are full of contradictions.
--Ai Yazawa
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Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will like the real you.
--Oreki Houtarou
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--Oreki Houtarou
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The real question facing us is not 'What do we want to become?', but 'What do we want to want?'. Those who are not spooked by this question probably haven't given it enough thought.
― Yuval Noah Hararih Harari
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― Yuval Noah Hararih Harari
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To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages
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― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages
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Everything was a formula to me. This was my newest discovery: the more positive things I did, the more positively I would be perceived. This was definitely something I could use to lessen or even reverse the consequences of my negative actions.
― Michael J Heil
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― Michael J Heil
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Expectations are like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
- Swami Vivekanand
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- Swami Vivekanand
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