Wisdom
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Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
Of course, when you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
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.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
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.
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
You can be very wild and still be very wise.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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