Wisdom
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
You can be very wild and still be very wise.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom — and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything — even mountains, rivers, plants and trees — should be your teacher.
What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.
We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
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