Wisdom Quotes
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
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The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
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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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If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
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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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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
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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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Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.
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Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.
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When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.
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Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven;Living, and comprehensive of all life.Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,Star-throned.
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Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.
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The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
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When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.
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The fear of God illumines the soul, annihilates evil, weakens the passions, drives darkness from the soul and makes it pure. The fear of God is the summit of wisdom. Where it is not you will find nothing good. Whoever does not have the fear of God is open to diabolical falls.
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The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance, when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter.
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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
