Wisdom Quotes
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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
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What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.
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You are not the sum of your physical, mental, emotional life, but you are designed for the spiritual. The whole design of the human being is created to enjoy your spiritual life and not the material life. This is the basic thing human beings don't understand and that's why, if they knew this fundamental thing, they would seek their spirit first and they would not seek other things.
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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
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It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
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The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
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The overarching conventional wisdom - what everyone from government experts to my French girlfriends take as articles of faith - is that restrictive diets generally don't make you healthier or slimmer. Instead, it's best to eat a variety of high-quality foods in moderation and pay attention to whether you're hungry.
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At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.
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Wisdom comes only with innocence.
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I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.
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All religions are ultimately cargo cults.Adherents perform required rituals, followspecific rules, and expect to be supernaturallygifted with desired rewards-long life,honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth,victory over opponents, immortality afterdeath, any desired rewards.
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With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.
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Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
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Silence is a fence around wisdom.
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There shall always be much silence in a man's conduct. He shall speak only about a matter concerned with wisdom or matters that are necessary to keep his body alive.
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In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
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What is yoga ? In simple words, it is taking your attention to the Spirit. This is yoga. What does the kundalini do ? She raises your attention and takes it to the Spirit. Only after knowing the Spirit you can know God.
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It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
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The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
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For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.
