Wisdom Quotes - Page 26

• Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Positive, Inspiring

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• The stream from Wisdom's well,
  Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

  Bayard Taylor

  Streams, Wells, Supplies

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.130

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• Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.

  Emile Souvestre

  And Love, Abode, Breasts

  "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 549), 1886.

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• We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Advice, Profit

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• Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Happiness, Being Happy, Thankful

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• Through discipline comes freedom.

  Aristotle

  Inspiring, Freedom, Discipline

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• A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Ignorance, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.109, BookBaby

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• Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

  Horace

  Folly

  "The Odes of Horace".

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• I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.

  Ariwara no Narihira

  Inspirational, Yesterday, Would Be

  Ariwara no Narihira, “I Have Always Known”

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• We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Wise, Goodness, Being Wise

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• Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gay, Mirth, Abandonment

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.

  Ibn Arabi

  Islamic, Self, Hands

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• Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

  Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi

  Islamic, Mean, Way

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• You might be anything. You might be having any organization, you might be having any position in life, you might be any great personality, makes no difference to God. What is important is that: are you seeking?

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Yoga, Organization

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• He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

  Solomon

  Wise, Men, Being Wise

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• It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

  Richard Whately

  Wise, Rebuilding, Neglect

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.71

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• Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Inspiring, Fear

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.53, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom, Patriotic, Political

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: new annotated edition”, p.28, MarcoPolo

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• Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

  Mortimer Adler

  Life, Book, Understanding

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Life, Healing, Waiting

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.230, Penguin

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• The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

  Confucius

  Life, Men, Two

  Confucius (1986). “The Analects”, Hippocrene Books

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• To understand everything is to forgive everything.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Forgiveness

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• When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about peace, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ.

  Ambrose

  Life, God, Christian

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• Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Believe, Errors, Common

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.112

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