Samuel Daniel Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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My daughter loves singing above all else.
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We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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I feel alive in quiet moments with my son, riding our bikes or watching him line his trains up in a particular order, witnessing how his mind works, hearing him learn a new word. I'm alive in these special moments because I never knew a love like this.
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The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
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The wise are above books.
