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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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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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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Silence is a fence around wisdom.
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Wisdom precludes boldness.
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I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.
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Sahaja Yoga is a very subtle happening within us. It's a very subtle happening. And this subtler happening gives you sensitivity to divine joy.
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Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.
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It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
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A healthy person can accept criticism.
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Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
