Mankind has a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

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"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

- Samuel Johnson

Love

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

- Samuel Johnson

Compassion

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."

- Samuel Johnson

Compassion

"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."

- Samuel Johnson

Compassion

"Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment."

- Samuel Johnson

Self-awareness

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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

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