Albert Einstein: The attempt to combine wisdom and power has...

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Category	Wisdom
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Quote: Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...
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Author:
Bob Marley
Category:
Wisdom

Don't gain the world...

Quote: True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Author:
Socrates
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Wisdom

True wisdom comes to...

Quote: The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
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Author:
Voltaire
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Wisdom

The more often a...

Quote: Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
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Author:
Rumi
Category:
Wisdom

Seek the wisdom that...

Quote: Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
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Author:
Confucius
Category:
Wisdom

Wisdom, compassion, and courage...

Quote: And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.
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Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Category:
Wisdom

And so, onwards... along...

Quote: In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
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Author:
Rumi
Category:
Wisdom

In their seeking, wisdom...

Quote: I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
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Author:
Maya Angelou
Category:
Wisdom

I love wisdom. And...

Quote: Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Author:
Aristotle
Category:
Wisdom

Knowing yourself is the...

Quote: There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Category:
Wisdom

There is more wisdom...

Quote: All wisdom is not new wisdom.
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Author:
Winston Churchill
Category:
Wisdom

All wisdom is not...

Quote: No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
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Author:
C. S. Lewis
Category:
Wisdom

No great wisdom can...

Quote: I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Author:
Socrates
Category:
Wisdom

I decided that it...

Quote: Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
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Author:
Socrates
Category:
Wisdom

Are you not ashamed...

Quote: The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
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Author:
Winston Churchill
Category:
Wisdom

The first duty of...

Quote: The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
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Author:
Socrates
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Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom...

Quote: Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
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Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Category:
Wisdom

Behold! I am weary...

Quote: Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.
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Author:
Edgar Allan Poe
Category:
Wisdom

Those who dream by...

Quote: It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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Author:
Mahatma Gandhi
Category:
Wisdom

It is unwise to...

Quote: Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain
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Author:
Anthony Bourdain
Category:
Wisdom

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough:...

Quote: Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
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Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
Category:
Wisdom

Nine-tenths of wisdom is...

Quote: Wisdom is knowing you know nothing.
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Author:
Socrates
Category:
Wisdom

Wisdom is knowing you...

Quote: Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.
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Author:
Rumi
Category:
Wisdom

Wisdom tells us we...

Quote: The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Author:
Aristotle
Category:
Wisdom

The virtue of justice...

Quote: Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Author:
Socrates
Category:
Wisdom

Wonder is the beginning...

Quote: Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category:
Wisdom

Before we acquire great...

Quote: Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
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Buddha
Category:
Wisdom

Meditation brings wisdom; lack...

Quote: Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
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Author:
Aristotle
Category:
Wisdom

Excellence, then, is a...

Quote: Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
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Author:
Bob Marley
Category:
Wisdom

Don’t gain the world...

Quote: The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Author:
Socrates
Category:
Wisdom

The only true wisdom...

Albert Einstein: The attempt to combine wisdom and power has...

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