Wisdom Quotes
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The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.
Michael Ignatieff
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We gather knowledge faster than we gather wisdom.
William Bell
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
Soren Kierkegaard
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You might be anything. You might be having any organization, you might be having any position in life, you might be any great personality, makes no difference to God. What is important is that: are you seeking?
Nirmala Srivastava
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The reality is that you are the spirit. The rest is a myth.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.
Gautama Buddha
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Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.
Euripides
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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.
Nirmala Srivastava
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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
John Milton
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The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
Steven Levitt
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Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.
Etty Hillesum
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You don't have to have blind faith for anything. Blind faith leads to fanaticism. You shouldn't have blind faith at all. You have to experience, and after experiencing if you do not have faith, that means you are not honest.
Nirmala Srivastava
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The enjoyment of life is only possible if we could get connected to the spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Reality is only possible if you are in the realm of joy.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.
Confucius
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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
Ann Radcliffe
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When you know that the snake is in you – that's wisdom.
Jordan Peterson
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Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
Heraclitus
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No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William Penn
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Understand that wisdom is higher than intellect and discretion is higher than debating.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Have faith in the wisdom of that we call change.
Nikki Gemmell