Wisdom

(47 votes)   It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(47 votes)   There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Edward Hoagland
1932-, American Novelist, Essayist

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(47 votes)   Wisdom is found only in truth.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(46 votes)   Among the virtues some are primary, and some are subordinate to these. The following are the primary: Wisdom, courage, justice, temperance.

Zeno the Stoic

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(46 votes)   Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(46 votes)   Earning trust is not always the hard part.... maintaining it is.

Matt K

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(46 votes)   Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.

Bertrand Russell

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(45 votes)   Do not attempt to teach that which you yourself have not yet mastered

Maria Taddeo
Writer, Artist

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(45 votes)   The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(45 votes)   The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(45 votes)   When You smoke herb it reveals you to yourself. All the wickedness you do is revealed by the herb --- it's you conscience and gives you an honest picture of yourself.

Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

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(44 votes)   Everyone laughs and cries in the same language.

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"Burn This Book"

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(44 votes)   Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.

Ronald Reagan
40th US President, b. 1911-2004

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(44 votes)   Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Plato

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(44 votes)   The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

Nicolas Boileau

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