Wisdom Quotes
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One has to practice wisdom through living in the present.
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God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
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Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.
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Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.
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We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!
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For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.
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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
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When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.
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A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
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The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.
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Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious.
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Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
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The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.
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I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.
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In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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A grandparent can be simply affirming. A grandparent has been there, done that child-raising stuff, and has the wisdom of experience. And so in some ways, they're free to love without the anxiety of being the actual parents. They're free to give.
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You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.
