Quotes with wisdom

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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • M. Rutherford When a man grows old, wisdom will not keep him alive.
    M. Rutherford
    English writer (ps. van William Hale White) (1831 - 1913)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bhagavad Gita When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Saadi Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • T. S. Eliot Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • T. S. Eliot Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Madame Neckar Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Alan Paton Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Plato Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • William Shakespeare Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; filths savour but themselves.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Abigail Adams Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Samuel Smiles Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Daniel Webster Wisdom begins at the end.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Socrates Wisdom begins in wonder.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • George Santayana Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Norman Cousins Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
    Saturday Review 15 April 1978
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Francis Hutcheson Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best Ends by the best Means.
    Inquiry into the best means of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue II, 5
    Francis Hutcheson
    Irish philosopher (1694 - 1746)
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