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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox (in Interior Designing for Kindness!)
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To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love. --Unknown (in The 12-year-old Headmistress)
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We rely upon artists to articulate what most of us can only feel in joy and sorrow. Whenever I feel my courage wavering I rush to them. They will give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on. --Helen Hayes (in Giving Slums a Human Face)
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The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. --Lin Yutang (in An Academic Sparks Giving to Charity)
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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. --Juvenal (in Intelligence That Transcends the GRE)
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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. --Phyllis Theroux (in Life is 'Baeutiful')
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. --German Proverb (in Shhh! Quiet People at Work)
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. --Thomas Jefferson (in Family Finds $45K -- And Returns It)
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Turn your wounds into wisdom. --Oprah Winfrey (in Using Soccer to Turn it Around)
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. --David Starr Jordan (in Fostering Virtue)
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Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers. --Julio Olalla (in A Love Affair With Questions)
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Patience is the companion of wisdom. --St. Augustine (in Why Patience Pays Off)
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Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. --Nisargadatta Maharaj (in Valentine's Day Wisdom)
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. --Tao Te Ching (in Intelligence Is Overrated: What It Really Takes to Succeed)
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom. --Charles Dickens (in Love is the Answer)
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Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in The Literary Physician & How Stories Heal)
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in The Learning Curve of Gratitude)
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. --Ansel Adams (in A Manifesto for Living)
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. --Lao Tzu (in Six Ways to Become A Wise Leader)
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. --Socrates (in Wonder: The Most Human of Emotions)
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You are a deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was. --Anthon St. Maarten (in Seth Godin: On the Art of Noticing & Creating)
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. --Socrates (in How To Think Like A Wise Person )
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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. --Khalil Gibran (in A 5-Year-Old's Reflection On Life & Death)
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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 (in Life Lessons From An Ice-Cream Excursion )
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Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. --William James (in Helpful Tips For Your Inner Critic)
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. --Socrates (in Wonder: When & Why The World Appears Radiant)
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Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom with young people. --Lailah Gifty Akita (in Boston's High School & Senior Center in One)
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Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action. --Krista Tippett (in The Mystery and Art of Living)
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Wisdom begins in wonder. --Socrates (in Can Science Help You Become Wise?)
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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. --Proust (in The Winter Pilgrim)
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Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom. --John Mark Green (in Three Stories of Healing and Transformation)
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Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful. --E.F. Schumacher (in Finding Right Livelihood)
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Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. --Francis Bacon (in No Better Place to Meet Yourself)
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Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. --Lao Tzu (in Insight-Out: Guiding Rage into Power)
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A man of wisdom delights in water. --Confucius (in Wells of Living Water)
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. --Henri Frederic Amiel (in Advice from 100-Year-Olds)
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Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in Brian Conroy: The Art of Storytelling)
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We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors wisdom. --Maya Angelou (in Burned Pages Don't Lie: A Genealogy Search)
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
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Today we celebrate light and honor the wisdom of the shadows. In connecting with the natural world in a way that honors the sacred immanence in all things, we establish a resonance with the seasons. --Dacha Avelin (in A Solstice Invitation)
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. --George William Russell (in Oncology Yoga: Tapping into the Wisdom of the Body)
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If we are to work together more intelligently, we will need to choose processes that evoke our curiosity, humility, generosity and wisdom. --Margaret Wheatley (in Solving Complex Problems Relying on Diversity and Inclusion)
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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. --Khalil Gibran (in Their Irrepressible Innocence)
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We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in The Soul of Medicine)
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Wisdom is dangerous. Love and beauty are too. Our culture has kept us away from them, and must do so to perpetuate the insanity we see all around us. --Nikos Patedakis (in Horse Medicine, Horse Mystery)
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Substitute attention for preparation. Then you'll be working in real time. Focusing attention in the present puts you in touch with a kind of natural wisdom. --Patricia Ryan Madson (in Fishing Before You Know How to Fish)
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Every child begins the world again.
Henry David Thoreau
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