187 Quotes About Wisdom That Ring True to Life
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My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

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Calmly in the precious present, be a light for love and wisdom in the window on your world.

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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

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Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

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Wisdom is ever fresh; other things grow stale, but this is the evergreen flower of nature.

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Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens.

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True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.

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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

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The first point of wisdom is to discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.

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Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

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Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

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Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

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The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

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Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

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She follows her heart
Burns with the fire
Shines through the dark
Takes her brain along
She is growing
By burning the bridges and
Lighting the candles.

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It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part -- perhaps the greatest part -- of our life's journey.

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The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.

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Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

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The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

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Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.

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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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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.

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
