True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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"What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."

- Henry David Thoreau

Courage

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

Success

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer."

- Henry David Thoreau

Respect

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

Mindfulness

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

Ambition

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"Knowledge is that which benefits not that which is memorized."

- Imam al-Shafi’i (RA)

Knowledge

"I didnt get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone."

- Wade Boggs

Knowledge

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

Knowledge

"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis

Knowledge

"Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power."

- Larry Winget

Knowledge