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Wisdom Quotes (page 22)

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 Adler
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent."
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. Hunter S. Thompson
The apprenticeship to passivity—I know nothing more contrary to our habits. (The modern age begins with two hysterics: Don Quixote and Luther.) If we make time, produce and elaborate it, we do so out of our repugnance to the hegemony of essence and to the contemplative submission it presupposes. Taoism seems to me wisdom’s first and last word: yet I resist it, my instincts reject it, as they refuse to endure anything—the heredity of revolt is too much for us. Our disease? Centuries of... Emile M. Cioran
And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over. Friedrich Nietzsche
Paulo Coelho quote: "When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your..."
When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom. Paulo Coelho
Well, I cannot claim any great experience in life,' the Saw-Horse answered for himself; 'but I seem to learn very quickly, and often it occurs to me that I know more than any of those around me.' 'Perhaps you do,' said the Emperor; 'for experience does not always mean wisdom. - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 89 chapter 11 L. Frank Baum
All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us. George Santayana
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome. May Sarton
Solon quote: "Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the..."
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom. Solon
You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re... Neil Gaiman
Ben Okri quote: "If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid..."
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom. Ben Okri
None strive to know their proper merit. But strain for wisdom, beauty, spirit. And lose the praise that is their due. When they've the impossible in view Mary Wortley
July 1936There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lover enters the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire. A love story is not about those who lose their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing - not the wisdom of sleep or the... Michael Ondaatje
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. Charles Dickens
James Clavell quote: "The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom."
The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom. James Clavell

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