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Quotes About Sharing

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.
~ Orson Scott Card
Everybody has his talent, everybody has his gift from God, and we go about sharing gifts with each other, that's the way of the world, the best way.
~ Orson Scott Card
you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man. Qing-jao
~ Orson Scott Card
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself.
~ Orson Scott Card
People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.
~ Orson Scott Card
It's like communes—people with nothing are always willing to share.
~ Orson Scott Card
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.
~ Orson Scott Card
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
~ Oscar Wilde
Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
~ Oscar Wilde
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.
~ Oscar Wilde
Never tire to study. And to teach to others
~ Confucius
If I am walking with two people, both will be my teachers
~ Confucius
a powder for the headache which Mrs. Mering had given all of us, but which she took herself.
~ Connie Willis
For the sharing of bread is not such a simple thing nor is its acknowledgement. Whatever thanks be given, however spoke or written down.
~ Cormac McCarthy
De todos modos el compartir es la ley del camino, verdad?
~ Cormac McCarthy
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
~ Cornelia Funke
It is hard to have secrets one cannot share, or to believe in a truth that others don't want to see.
~ Cornelia Funke
For hundreds of years, the human race has dreamt of a world where knowledge could be shared universally, where every human being on the planet could have access to our storehouse of knowledge. Because knowledge is power, and shared knowledge is a superpower. Now, after centuries, we have it within our grasp to realize one of our most beautiful dreams.
~ Cory Doctorow
We're not making a world without greed, Jacob. We're making a world where greed is a perversion. Where grabbing everything for yourself instead of sharing is like smearing yourself with shit: gross. Wrong. Our winning doesn't mean you don't get to be greedy. It means people will be ashamed for you, will pity you and want to distance themselves from you. You can be as greedy as you want, but no one will admire you for it.
~ Cory Doctorow
The important thing is to convince people to make and share useful things. Fighting with greedy douches who don't share doesn't do that. Making more, living under conditions of abundance, that does it.
~ Cory Doctorow
On the one hand, information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.
~ Cory Doctorow
I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.
~ Craig Keener
Aren't we all just looking for someone to talk about everything with? Someone worth the effort of telling our stories and opinions to, whose stories and opinions we actually want to hear?
~ Curtis Sittenfeld