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"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance." »Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all." »Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
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"But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all." »Oscar Wilde
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"Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! wisdom is the child of the storm." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides." »Gene Oliver
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"wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you." »Proverbs 47-8
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"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise." »Sophocles
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"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise." »Sophocles, Antigone
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"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." »Walter Lippmann
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"Wit and wisdom differ. Wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is in bringing about ends." »John Selden
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"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." »Theodore Isaac Rubin
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"wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding." »Bible, Proverbs, 4:7
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"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own." »W. R. Inge
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"literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood." »Georges Bataille
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"literature is the orchestration of platitudes." »Thornton
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"There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart." »Charles Dickens
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"wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone." »Horace
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"wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things, for this and with this everything is bought and sold?fortitude, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue subsists with wisdom." »Plato
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"Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don’t wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belongs to the wisdom!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others." »Andr Maurois
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"literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity." »G. K. Chesterton
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"literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." »G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)
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"literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future." »Vernon Cooper
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"Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered." »H Hahn Blavatsky
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"literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once." »Cyril Connolly
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"In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"If you wish to know how much preferable wisdom is to gold, then observe: if you change gold you get silver for it, but your gold is gone; but if you exchange one sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh knowledge, and at the same time keep what you possessed before." »The Talmud
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"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." »Spencer Silver
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