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Gratitude
is a form of wisdom. It is patient, loving, hopeful, and rigorously
honest. It denies nothing, and it overlooks nothing. It looks reality
full in the face and says: This is true, this is me, this is my
situation, and I have the opportunity to build from here. This is my
starting point, and I will succeed!
~ Phil Humbert
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
~ Aristotle
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Meditation
brings wisdom – lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what
leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that
leads to wisdom.
~ Buddha
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The
secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,
worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the
present moment wisely and earnestly.
~ Buddha
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To
enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring
peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a
man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all
wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
~ Buddha
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Grief should be the instructor of the wise. Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest.
~ Lord Byron
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Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.
~ Eileen Caddy
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If
facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the
emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which
the seeds most grow.
~ Rachel Carson
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The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
~ Confucius
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
~ Confucius
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To know that you know, and to know that you don’t know – that is real wisdom.
~ Confucius
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
~ Will Durant
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Trusting yourself is trusting the wisdom that created you.
~ Wayne Dyer
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We judge a man’s wisdom by his hope.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
~ Anatole France
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Keep
me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does
not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
~ Kahlil Gibran
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How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.
~ Hakuin
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
~ Jimi Hendrix
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
~ William James
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, virtue is doing it.
~ David Star Jordan
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Stillness,
insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete
in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
~ Immanuel Kant
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He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
~ Lao Tzu
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
~ Doug Larson
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Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
~ Charlie Parker
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Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.
~ Wilferd Peterson
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
~ Plato
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
~ Marcel Proust
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A fool wonders, the wise man wanders.
~ Susan Rea
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Two
people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego,
garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating – the other is the hidden
spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard
or attended to – you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Bertrand Russell
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~ Saint Augustine
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Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
~ William Saroyan
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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
~ Socrates
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Wisdom begins with wonder. Be as you wish to seem.
~ Socrates
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
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If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
~ Mark Twain
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With
courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be
compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of
integrity.
~ Mark Twain
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
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When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.
~ Marianne Williamson
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Follow your instincts. That is where true wisdom manifests itself.
~ Oprah Winfrey
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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
~ Aristotle
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“By
three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is
noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by
experience, which is the bitterest.”
~ Confucius
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“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
~ Oprah Winfrey
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“Knowing
others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering
others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize
that you have enough, you are truly rich.”
~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“When you know better you do better.”
~ Maya Angelou
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“He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
~ Alexander Hamilton
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“The past has no power over the present moment.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
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“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
~ Albert Einstein
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“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
~ Albert Einstein
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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
~ Socrates
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“Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
~ Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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“Wisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why.”
~ William Edgar Stafford
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“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?”
~ Brian Tracy
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“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”
~ Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
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“The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.”
~ Confucius
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“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.”
~ Richard Bach, Illusions
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
~ Alfred Tennyson
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“Wisdom
cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always
sounds like foolishness to someone else. Knowledge can be communicated,
but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one
cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
~ Calvin Coolidge
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“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
~ Anthony Robbins
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“The
small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The
great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious,
impenetrable.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore
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“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
~ C.G. Jung
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“The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.”
~ Leo Babauta
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“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“No
man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in
the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of
the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of
his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you
enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of
your own mind.”
~ Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.
(translated by Brooks Haxton)”
~ Heraclitus, Fragments
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“If
you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life,
you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”
~ Brian Tracy
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“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.”
~ Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
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“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
~ Albert Einstein
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“The
teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his
wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
~ Khalil Gibran
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“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”
~ Horace
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“When you make a choice, you change the future.”
~ Deepak Chopra
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“To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
~ Marilyn Vos Savant
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“One
way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the
consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a
completely different perspective on what the future might look like.”
~ Andy Andrews, The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective.
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“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”
~ Zhuangzi
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“To
finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road,
to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.”
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
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“The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.”
~ Madeleine De Souvre Sable
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“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
~ Andrew Davidson
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“Perhaps
wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time.
And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.
”
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
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“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
~ George Eliot
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“Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”
~ Brian Rathbone, Regent
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“Life can only be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards.”
~ Stuart Connelly
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“Wisdom
can be gathered on your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very
course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books
you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.
Of course, bad information is gathered in your downtime too. Bad
information that can change the very course of your life will come from
the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen
to or watch on radio or television. One of wisdom's greatest benefits,
is accurate discernment- the learned ability to immediately tell right
from wrong. Good from evil. Acceptable from unacceptable. Time well
spent from time wasted. The right decision from the wrong decision. And
many times this is simply a matter of having the correct perspective.
One way to define wisdom is THE ABILITY TO SEE, INTO THE FUTURE, THE
CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR CHOICES IN THE PRESENT. That ability can give you a
completely different perspective on what the future might look like...
with a degree of intelligence and a hint of wisdom, most people can tell
the difference between good and bad. However, it takes a truly wise
person to discern the oh-so-thin line between good and best. And that
line...[gives you the] perspective that allows you to see clearly the
long-term consequences of your choices. ”
~ Andy Andrews, The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective.
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“Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.”
~ Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom
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“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”
~ Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
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“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”
~ Napoleon Hill
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“You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.”
~ Wayne W. Dyer
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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
~ Mortimer Jerome Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
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“The
secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity,
lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This
transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be
discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.”
~ Surya Das
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“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
~ Leonardo da Vinci
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“We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.”
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Selected Works
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“There
are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human
knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by
understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely
as self-deception.”
~ Mortimer Jerome Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
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“ When you love you give meaning to this world. ”
~ Sorin Cerin
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“I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow.
May the fire of love grow in our hearts.
May the fire of transformation glow in our movements.
May the fire of purification burn away our sins.
May the fire of justice guide our steps.
May the fire of wisdom illuminate our paths.
May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished.”
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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“The
source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves,
but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its
presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak
of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true
Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.”
~ Paul Brunton, The Notebooks of Paul Brunton
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“Compassion for others is a mark of wisdom.”
~ Tadahiko Nagao
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“Only wise men look for new wisdom.”
~ Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
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“Be first the master of yourself”
~ Balthasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
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“Man will never reach the higher wisdom,
If he can't yet accept the pain of change.”
~ Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
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“Every
life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of
your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.”
~ Kevin J. Anderson, A Forest of Stars
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