Wisdom
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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.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
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.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
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