Wisdom Quotes - Page 27

• For this is wisdom- to love and live To take what fate or the Gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time--let go.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Letting Go, Prayer, Passion

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• For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

  Ivan Panin

  Love, Inspirational, Beauty

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• O Allah,
  You know that the only thing I want in this life
  Is to be obedient to Your command.
  Even the living sight of my eyes
  Is service at your court

  Rabia Basri

  Islamic, Eye, Sight

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• Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Humble, Stills, Ifs

  H P Blavatsky (2015). “The Voice of the Silence: Being Extracts from The Book of the Golden Precepts”, p.38, Quest Books

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• In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Writing, Men, Long Ago

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1872). “The Snow-image, and Other Twice-told Tales”, p.10

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• Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Filth, Goodness, Albany

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 2, l. 38

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• Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

  William Blake

  Eagles, Doe, Moles

  'The Book of Thel' (1789) plate i 'Thel's Motto'

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• We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Power, Done

  'Litany for Dictatorships' (1935)

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• But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wiser, Known

  1913 'There's Wisdom in Women'.

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• The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Blood, Teeth, Nails

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mother, Children, Zest

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1963). “Goethe's Faust: part one and sections from part two”, Anchor

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• Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!

  Rumi

  Blessed, Islamic, Keys

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• It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Islamic, May, States

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• There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.

  Mark Van Doren

  Two, Different, Facts

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• It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.

  Philip Moeller

  Age, Forgotten, Old Age

  Philip Moeller (1918). “Five Somewhat Historical Plays”

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• Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

  William Cowper

  Fall, Taken, Accomplishment

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems”, p.33

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• A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Christian, Wise, Lying

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.101

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• Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  People, Ambitious, Pockets

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Crabbed Age and Youth'.

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Peace, Children

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• The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

  Norman Douglas

  Dying, Sublimity

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• To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Trouble, Easy

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, True Knowledge, Knows

  "The Analects".

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• To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Numbers, Hours, End Of Journey

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.177, Penguin

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  Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

  Frank Zappa

  Love, Music, Guitar

  Song: Packard Goose

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• Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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