Wisdom Quotes

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The wise learn many things from their enemies. — Aristophanes
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. — Aristophanes
We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts. — Euripides
Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves. — Euripides
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. — Friedrich Schiller
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. — Mahatma Gandhi
If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final… — Mahatma Gandhi
Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others. — Pema Chodron
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. — Don Williams
When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom. — Marianne Williamson
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual… — Eckhart Tolle
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual… — Sogyal Rinpoche
The moment you understand that there is an essence of purity in you, you will realize reality. The moment you realize reality you will have… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities. — Guy Finley
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. — George Santayana
If you would judge, understand. — Seneca the Younger
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. — Baruch Spinoza
To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is real wisdom. — Confucius

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