Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

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• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Wisdom
  • Turn
  • Wounds

• Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Respect
  • Wisdom
  • Listen

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Wisdom
  • Generation
  • Member

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Done
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Wisdom
  • First
  • Tangled

• 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.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Food
  • Wisdom
  • Spiritual

• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Wisdom

• 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.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Wisdom

• If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Wisdom
  • Judge

• You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• I'm looking for a market for wisdom.

  

  Leo Szilard
  • Wisdom

• It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

  

  James Hillman
  • Wisdom

• The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

  

  Louise L. Hay
  • Past
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Truth
  • Pain
  • Wisdom

• Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

  

  John Cheever
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Mind
  • House
  • Wisdom

• Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • Love
  • Me
  • Angry

• Doing so this month in the context of the Council's ongoing process seems appropriate and reasonable.

  

  Walter Frederick Walker
  • Month
  • Reasonable
  • Council

• You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Man
  • Joke
  • Confidende

• True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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