Laozi Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

. . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

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Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

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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?

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

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Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Simple Quotes

A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.

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The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

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Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

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Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

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Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

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Philosophy is the highest music.

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