Wisdom Quotes
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Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
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Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
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Each man follows the path of destiny, but no two paths are alike. It seems that mine now runs into a place of evil intent, wasted wisdom, and stupidity.
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When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.
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Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.
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If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
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Equestrian art, perhaps more than any other, is closely related to the wisdom of life.
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
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Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.
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The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
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I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
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Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
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Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow
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When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
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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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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in lifeBut needs it, and may learn.
