Wisdom
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.
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