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Wisdom Quotes by M. Scott Peck
- The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
- Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom
- Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
- Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
- It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and…
- Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
- I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
- Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love…
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- 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
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- 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
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold