Wisdom Quotes
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To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.
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I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.
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To be foolish is human, but the capacity to choose between acts leading to folly or to wisdom is a uniquely human gift.
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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
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Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.
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No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.
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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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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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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.
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Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahasrara, and to break Sahasrara is very easy otherwise. But if there is ego, you are already lost in that ego.
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The light of the spirit has to come into your attention.
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One tool that is used most and has the greatest misuse of power is looks, and another tool that is used least and has the least desire for power is wisdom.
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
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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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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.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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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.
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As a mother would see her child, you should see the whole world as a beautiful place that God has created for you.
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Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.
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I love being my age. I love getting older. What you lose in looks, you gain in wisdom. I might not be as physically beautiful on the outside today, but I'm much more beautiful on the inside. True beauty comes from inside.
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The path God chooses for each of us to follow isn't always an easy one, but we all have to decide whether or not we're willing to trust in His wisdom and embrace His will.
