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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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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Silence is a fence around wisdom.
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With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.
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'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
