A Quote by James Allen
A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.
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A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.
It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.
Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.
There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.
A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
The one person who's disappeared out of the business is the A&R man. Because the listener at home becomes the A&R man. He's the one who chooses what tracks he wants on the album. And that's cool.
When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.
A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
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