Wisdom Quotes
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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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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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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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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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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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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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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Giving opens the way for receiving.
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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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We are wiser than we know.
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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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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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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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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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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 gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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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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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
