Wisdom Quotes

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To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see. — Helen Keller
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love. — Anais Nin
Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in… — Hank Aaron
Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of… — Oprah Winfrey
You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet...… — Alice Walker
Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom… — James F. Cooper
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving… — Harold Rosenberg
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all… — Tryon Edwards
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet… — Henry David Thoreau
I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety… — Erwin McManus
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom. — Hugo Grotius
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is… — George William Curtis
Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance. — William Rotsler
Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the… — Ross Garnaut
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in… — Bertrand Russell
If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves;… — Ching Hai
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom. — Queen Elizabeth II
It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those… — John Quincy Adams
What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality… — Hans Rookmaaker
The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see… — Hasan of Basra

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