Wisdom Quotes
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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.
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Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
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If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.
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No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.
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It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense
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It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.
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When you know that the snake is in you – that's wisdom.
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The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
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Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.
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Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
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We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.
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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
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Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.
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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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Without holiness you cannot talk of God.
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But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.
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The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
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Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. Throw away industry and profit, and there won't be any thieves. If these three aren't enough, just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.
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It is only the Sahasrara has to grow, not the Spirit. The more sensitive the Sahasrara is, the more it receives the spiritual qualities of the Spirit. Actually the peace is felt in the Sahasrara. The bliss is also felt in the Sahasrara because that is the brain and the brain is the epitome of our nervous system, central nervous system, of consciousness itself.
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Love has its own qualities and one of the qualities is that love understands. Its understanding is not in words, not in thought, but it understands within. It can feel within, which is very important.
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Grant me the patience with changes that take time, appreciation of all that I have, tolerance of those with different struggles, and the strength to get up and try again, one day at a time.
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True wisdom always leads us to please God.
