Wisdom Quotes
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And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging man's natural free will, but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of these important rights, the preservation of these, inviolate, may justly be said to include the preservation of our civil immunities in their largest and most extensive sense.
William Blackstone -
Sahasrara is the throne for the Spirit and the bigger is the king, the bigger is the throne. The way you treat your Spirit is expressed through the way you have your Sahasrara.
Nirmala Srivastava
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer -
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
Wilson Mizner -
There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
When you start witnessing something without thought, there is no obstruction for absorbing the knowledge about that thing because there is no thought. It's complete absorption which takes place. And then it manifests. This is how the Divine Power works within us. So with our gravity, what we do is to touch that depth within us, which can carry the Divine Power and manifest.
Nirmala Srivastava -
One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.
Gautama Buddha -
To be foolish is human, but the capacity to choose between acts leading to folly or to wisdom is a uniquely human gift.
Alan Briskin
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To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.
Confucius -
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale -
There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans -
We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.
Apostolos Doxiadis -
No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.
Jonathan Schell -
Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.
Michael Savage
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Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.
Cory Trepanier -
Patience is the road to wisdom.
Kao Kalia Yang -
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
Louise Erdrich -
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
Plato -
It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.
Tony Kushner -
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
Seneca the Younger
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I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.
William Faulkner -
I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.
John Rhys-Davies -
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
Will Durant -
Let the people know my wisdom, fill the land with smoke
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