Wisdom Quotes
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If you can reduce the power of reaction, you rise much higher.
Nirmala Srivastava
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In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.
Gautama Buddha
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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
Herbie Hancock
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Enlightenment of your brain means the limited capacity of your brain has to become unlimited in its capacity to realize God.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions, I see religion as the winnower of the wisdom of the human race. Of course, not everything about these religions is wise. Their social patterns, for example - master-slave, caste, and gender relations - have been adopted from the mores of their time. But in their view of the nature of reality, there is nothing in either modernity or postmodernity that rivals them.
Huston Smith
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Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes, yet, when we find that God has actually done any thing, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence, is forever out of place.
Nehemiah Adams
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Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, revised edition.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
Seneca the Younger
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Like small children you must have a very clean heart to accept, to absorb the beauty of peace that is within you and also the beauty of purity. Without purity, you cannot enjoy anything.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
George Arliss
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To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean.
Nirmala Srivastava
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What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.
Nirmala Srivastava
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What you have to do as soon as you know about somebody, then you have to think what goodness he has got, how can I imbibe that goodness within myself?
Nirmala Srivastava
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
Seneca the Younger
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.
Ezra Pound
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We can all pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of Gods will. We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands.
Harry S Truman
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Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.
Evan Esar
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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee
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In emotions you should be bubbling with joy. Joy is your emotion. In action you should be thoughtless and in ascent you should be surrendered.
Nirmala Srivastava
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I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.
Nirmala Srivastava
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There is no wisdom without love.
Nilakanta Sri Ram
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My affairs are in the keeping of Infinite Wisdom. I am guided by Divine Intelligence. The activity of Spirit inspires my mind and flows through my actions. Life lies open to me, rich, full and abundant.
Ernest Holmes
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
Huston Smith