Wisdom

(290 votes)   -The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Charles Darwin

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(281 votes)   he who doesn't have legs cannot teach one how to walk

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(278 votes)   Words may very well exceed their weight in gold.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(258 votes)   The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all good things are thus confused with ill.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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(246 votes)   Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

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(241 votes)   I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

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(239 votes)   More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

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(239 votes)   The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Socrates

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(235 votes)   Fun is a medicore word.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(230 votes)   Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(227 votes)   The Perception of an Illusion is Deception, even when you believed it was real! Perception of Deception is not an Illusion at all!

Carl Stoynoff
poet/philosopher

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(222 votes)   More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(219 votes)   Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study, and alos by faith.

Doctrine & Covenants

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(211 votes)   The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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(210 votes)   Cause and effect do not always offer the same results. It is the eventual effect of causation that is different for each of us.

Carl Stoynoff
poet/philosopher

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