Wisdom Quotes
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Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.
Confucius -
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
Sam Harris
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We've heard people say that teachers have no business going rogue and trying to select their own books, technology, and classes - and citizens have no business deciding what is worthy. We believe in teachers. We believe in the wisdom of the crowd.
Charles Best -
It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government which has been the work exclusively of foresight and wisdom. They have all been the result of a fortunate combination of circumstances.
John C. Calhoun -
The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle -
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best…
Frank Zappa -
It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
Xenophanes -
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
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I have no wisdom to share on dating.
Rachel Dratch -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
Rabia Basri -
There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to Heaven.
Anthony Douglas Williams -
To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
Confucius -
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
Parker Stevenson
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
Samuel Johnson -
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Walter Benjamin -
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
Beau Bridges -
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.
Albert Einstein -
On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice.
Sam Harris -
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant -
Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
Socrates -
There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.
Nirmala Srivastava -
I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
Oprah Winfrey