Wisdom Quotes
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Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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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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It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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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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There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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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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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah
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We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.
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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.
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Giving opens the way for receiving.
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Wisdom belongs in wonder.
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We are wiser than we know.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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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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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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Your prayers are your light;
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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've heard people say that teachers have no business going rogue and trying to select their own books, technology, and classes - and citizens have no business deciding what is worthy. We believe in teachers. We believe in the wisdom of the crowd.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
