Wisdom Quotes - Page 31

• No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hate, Education And Freedom, Racism

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2016

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• ‎In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

  Thomas Szasz

  Funny, Happiness, Children

  The Second Sin "Emotions" (1973)

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• 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

  Ignorance, Thinking, Self

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• I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts. May the fire of transformation glow in our movements. May the fire of purification burn away our sins. May the fire of justice guide our steps. May the fire of wisdom illuminate our paths. May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Fire, Justice

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• Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

  Khalil Gibran

  Despise, Turns, Words Of Wisdom

  "What Has Wisdom Got to Do with It? - 365 Daily Wisdom Confessions and Declarations". Book by Jasmine Renner, p. 85, 2013.

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• Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Waiting, Cold, Folly

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.289

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• Allah's Generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. The generosity of Allah will not stop increasing unless the gratitude of the servant ceases

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Gratitude, Islamic, Generosity

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• Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

  Charles Simmons

  Age, Next, Folly

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• If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom.

  Ivor Bulmer-Thomas

  Art, Knowing, Giving

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• There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.

  Marcel Proust

  Wise, Memories, Regret

  Marcel Proust (2015). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time”, p.481, Yale University Press

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• The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

  Plato

  Wise, Mean, Men

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• Happy those
  Who in the after-days shall live, when Time
  Hath spoken, and the multitude of years
  Taught wisdom to mankind!

  Robert Southey

  Years, Taught, Mankind

  Robert Southey (1853). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.8

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• That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

  Albert Pike

  Heart, Ignorance, Errors

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• The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Wise, Spiritual

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  It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Appreciation, Honesty

  John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

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• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

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• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892) act 3

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• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Teacher, Crazy

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• We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Yoga, Character

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• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899 See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 18

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• Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jun 06, 2011

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• To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

  Akhenaton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Islamic, Learning, Knowledge

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