Wisdom Quotes
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Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats
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Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
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Frst of all that I would crave as the richest of heaven's blessings would be wisdom from my Heavenly Father bestowed daily.
Emma Hale
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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
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Without holiness you cannot talk of God.
Nirmala Srivastava
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One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good.
Nirmala Srivastava
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The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.
Walter J. Turner
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Honestly, I couldn’t remember the last time I asked God to fill me with joy. Or to create a joyful spirit in my children. Goodness knows I’ve asked for peace and sanity and obedience. I’ve prayed for healing and wisdom. I’ve worshiped the Lord and studied His Word. But joy? How in the world did I forget about the beautiful, good, and pleasing gift of joy?
Angela Thomas
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Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.
Confucius
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.
Wislawa Szymborska
