Wisdom Quotes

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We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead? — Paul MacCready
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop — Ovid
It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this… — Jack Kornfield
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? — Martin Farquhar Tupper
Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light. — Sri Chinmoy
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon… — William Butler Yeats
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of… — Thomas Browne
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly. — Benjamin Franklin
I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute... — Dalai Lama
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. — Stephen Vincent Benet
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. — Thomas Carlyle
Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another. — Edmund Burke
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also… — Gertrude Jekyll
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it,… — Leo Tolstoy
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the… — Benjamin Franklin
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to… — Oprah Winfrey
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. — Horace
A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. — Confucius
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom… — William Cowper
Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. — Janet Morris

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