Wisdom Quotes
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The Spirit is the one that is love. Can you understand total love ? Can you understand something that just gives and enjoys giving and not asking for anything ? Loving for loves sake, that's what is your Spirit. It is watching you with that love, that total love.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
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Oh, things are frequently what they seem,And this is wisdom's crown:Only the game fish swims upstream,But the sensible fish swims down.
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There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
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I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.
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The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.
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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
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The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Giving opens the way for receiving.
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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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We are wiser than we know.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
