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#1

“Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”
― Brian Rathbone, Regent

tags: aging, life-experience, life-lessons, wisdom

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#2

“Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.”
― William Jordan

tags: growth, mistakes, wisdom

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#3

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: error, humility, wisdom

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#4

“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: anarchism, wisdom

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#5

“I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

tags: college, education, wisdom

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#6

“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
― Plato, Apology

tags: apology, knowledge, plato, socrates, wisdom

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#7

“Life is like a sandwich!

Birth as one slice,
and death as the other.
What you put in-between
the slices is up to you.

Is your sandwich tasty or sour?
Allan Rufus.org”
― Allan Rufus

tags: anxiety, art-of-dying, art-of-living, depression, enlightenment, hang-man, know-thyself, knowing, knowing-oneself, knowledge, knowledge-education, knowledge-of-self, knowledge-teaching, love, master, master-key, master-of-love, masters, mastery, mind, mind-body-spirit, mind-power, personal-development, personal-growth, positive-attitude, positive-mindset, positive-motivation, positive-outlook, positive-quotes, positive-thinking, positive-thoughts, power-of-love, power-of-thoughts, power-of-words, powerful-story, quote, sacred, sacred-teachings, sacred-wisdom, sage, sage-advice, self-esteem, self-help-book, self-improvement, self-improvement-book, soul, soul-searching, spirit, spiritual-development, spiritual-growth, spiritual-wisdom, spiritualism, suicidal-thoughts, suicide, teachings, unconditional-acceptance, unconditional-love, wisdom, wise-man

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#8

“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: philosophy, wisdom

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#9

“Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is.”
― idowu koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

tags: achievement, coaching, goals, growth, knowledge, personal-development, planning, self-help, success, wisdom

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#10

“My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: acting, action, believing, choices, decisions, delusion, faith, inspirational-writers, intentions, letting-go, moving-forward, ocd, the-past, understanding, wisdom

167 likes

#11

“errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: inspirational, wisdom

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#12

“You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: circumspection, gregariousness, wisdom

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#13

“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”
― Brian Tracy, Tracy Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success

tags: future, life, past, self-motivation, wisdom

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#14

“Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: being, goodness, inspirational, self-actualization, wisdom

312 likes

#15

“For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

tags: sorrow, wisdom

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#16

“This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!”
― Sivananda

tags: experience, inspirational, wisdom

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#17

“If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny

tags: appreciation, blessing, blessings, blessings-in-disguise, curse, dark-night-of-the-soul, desperation, dualism, duality, gratitude, happiness, joy, life-journey, life-lessons, light-and-darkness, pearls, sadness, tears, wisdom, yin-and-yang

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#18

“My love for you
was greater than my wisdom.”
― Euripides, Medea

tags: love, medea, wisdom

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#19

“Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: wisdom

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#20

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”
― David Norris

tags: time, wisdom

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#21

“The road to wisdom is paved with excess.

The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: mistakes, overindulgence, wisdom, writing

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#22

“Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.”
― Douglas Coupland

tags: life, wisdom

140 likes

#23

“It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

tags: wisdom

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#24

“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith, All trivia: Trivia, More trivia, Afterthoughts, Last words

tags: life, living, wisdom

57 likes

#25

“truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: analogy, ignorance, knowledge, refinement, wisdom

69 likes

#26

“Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

tags: wisdom

60 likes

#27

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
― Baltasar Gracian

tags: courage, wisdom

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#28

“This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"
And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

tags: feeling, king-arthur, knights, love, magic, merlin, wisdom

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#29

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: experience, knowledge, wisdom

97 likes

#30

“Despite popular belief to the contrary, there is absolutely no power in intention. The seagull may intend to fly away, may decide to do so, may talk with the other seagulls about how wonderful it is to fly, but until the seagull flaps his wings and takes to the air, he is still on the dock. There’s no difference between that gull and all the others. Likewise, there is no difference in the person who intends to do things differently and the one who never thinks about it in the first place. Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by our intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.”
― Andy Andrews, The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective

tags: inspirational, wisdom

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