Sara Teasdale Quotes
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
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We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
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Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
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God in his wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
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The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.
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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.
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Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
