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" All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. "
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom
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Wise
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" Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. "
Walter Benjamin
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Real Life
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" 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. "
John Burnside
Forest
Woods
Mystery
" Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. "
Henry David Thoreau
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Environmental
Life
" I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. "
Maya Angelou
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Wisdom
You
" Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice
Rather
May
" The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. "
Edward Young
Superior
Wise
Wisdom
" The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. "
Jean Paul
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Through
More
" The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. "
Norman Douglas
Living
Dying
Things
" Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition. "
Vincent Bugliosi
People
Expect
Wisdom
" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "
Terry Pratchett
Die
Beginning
You
" Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. "
Carl Jung
Wisdom
Us
Understanding
" The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. "
William Hazlitt
Knowledge
Judge
Heart
" A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. "
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Man
Wise Man
Wise
" Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' "
Bill Bradley
Us
Wisdom
Escape
" I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain. "
Henry David Thoreau
Attention
Excess
Rest
" You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner. "
Ma Huateng
Need
Wisdom
You
" Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. "
Henry David Thoreau
Divinity
Genius
Nature
" Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S. "
Martin Jacques
Never
Past
Two
" Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Wisdom
Mind
Words
" A mouse does not rely on just one hole. "
Plautus
Wisdom
Just One
Hole
" Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. "
Henry David Thoreau
Am
Earth
Intelligence
" Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. "
Alan Paton
Struggle
Wisdom
Wise
" Be happy. It's one way of being wise. "
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Happy
Wise
Be Happy
" There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. "
Kenny Rogers
Lose
You
Wisdom
" The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. "
John Burroughs
Better
Wisdom
Intention
" It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. "
Henry David Thoreau
Men
Interesting
Clothes
" Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. "
Charles Stanley
Us
Doing
Holy Spirit
" Things do not change; we change. "
Henry David Thoreau
Change
Things
" The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. "
David Brainerd
Father
Moving On
Wisdom
" If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. "
Mason Cooley
You
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