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Wisdom Quotes by Elbert Hubbard
- The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
- Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse…
- God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
- One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
- The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
- Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one…
- Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
- To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
- The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.
More Wisdom Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
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