Wisdom

(116 votes)   When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(115 votes)   Your mind is like a parichute, it works better when it's open!

Kurek Ashley
From the book...How would love respond

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(114 votes)   What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Henry Ward Beecher

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(114 votes)   Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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(110 votes)   He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.

Latin Proverbs
Sayings of Latin Origin

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(109 votes)   To be wise and love exceeds man's might.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(108 votes)   Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(108 votes)   The wise man has his foibles, as well as the fool. But the difference between them is, that the foibles of the one are known to himself and concealed from the world; and the foibles of the other are known to the world and concealed from himself.

John Mason

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(108 votes)   To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom.

John Milton

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(104 votes)   I believe that divine minds are all concious of a universal truth that begins and ends with geometry

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(103 votes)   A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

African Proverbs
Sayings of African Origin

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(102 votes)   The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Frank Garbutt

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(101 votes)   Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(100 votes)   Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Danish Proverbs
Sayings of Danish Origin

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(99 votes)   Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas J. Watson
18?-1956, American Businessman, Founder of IBM

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