Wisdom Quotes
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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
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Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.
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In the midst of possible world war, of wholesale destruction, I find my only question this: are there enough people now who believe? Is there time enough left for the wise to act? It is a contest between ignorance and death, or wisdom and life. My faith in humanity stands firm.
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Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
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Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.
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I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
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Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.
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. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
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I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.
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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.
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It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
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When the Kundalini rises, automatically you develop your own balances and that balanced life manifests outside. Now this ecological problem can be solved as soon as human beings get transformed and develop their balances. Because we are imbalanced, that's why the nature has gone into imbalance.
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The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators.
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Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?
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He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.
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The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.
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We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.
