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Wisdom Quotes (page 38)

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it. Andrew Lang
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
Sophocles quote: "There is no happiness where there is no wisdom..."
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom... Sophocles
...Nobody know when he is going to die. It is no good simply putting it off all the time, as we tend to do. If you face it, you realize you hold your life in your hands, and you're ready to let go at any moment. I think that is real wisdom. Bede Griffiths
George Orwell quote: "He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the..."
He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom. George Orwell
Lao Tzu quote: "(Then) appeared wisdom and shrewdness, and there ensued great..."
(Then) appeared wisdom and shrewdness, and there ensued great hypocrisy. Lao Tzu
Bertrand Russell quote: "Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to..."
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
Abraham Lincoln quote: "He whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers, has..."
He whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers, has declared that 'a house divided against itself cannot stand Abraham Lincoln
The astonishing paradox of Christ's teaching and of Christian experience is this: if we lose ourselves in following Christ, we actually find ourselves. True self-denial is self-discovery. To live for ourselves is insanity and suicide; to live for God and for man is wisdom and life indeed. We do not begin to find ourselves until we have become willing to lose ourselves in the service of Christ and of our fellows. John Stott
My doctor says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, she doesn't believe our memories flag because of a drop in estrogen but because of how crowded it in the drawers of our minds. A. Whitney Brown
The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise; and to set up the selfish, the foolish, or the wicked. Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very... William Makepeace Thackeray
Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finely distilled wisdom and passion of seers and poets with which the modern young mind is tempered for the world that blows it to pieces. Tennessee Williams
A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance. Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. Horace
Deepak Chopra quote: "Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom..."
Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart. Deepak Chopra

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