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" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "
Laurence Sterne
Power
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" When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. "
Morihei Ueshiba
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" If you want to go east, don't go west. "
Ramakrishna
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" I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. "
John Keats
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" 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
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Heart
" A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. "
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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" In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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" Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. "
John Patrick
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" Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. "
James Newman
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Children
" The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear. "
John Quincy Adams
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Laws
You
" The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. "
John Updike
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Wisdom
Parents
" The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. "
William Blake
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Road
Palace
" Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. "
William J. Clinton
Opposing
Values
Wisdom
" Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. "
Arthur Helps
Fall
Wisdom
Ground
" It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. "
Margaret Fuller
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" We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. "
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Words
No Words
Stupid
" I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. "
Lao Tzu
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Compassion
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" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "
Mike Myers
Some
Accept
Got
" 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
" When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. "
Laurence Sterne
Making
Frame
Excellent
" The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. "
Lucretius
Away
Wisdom
Wears
" A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one. "
Laurence Sterne
Own
Along
Him
" Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. "
David Starr Jordan
Virtue
Knowing
Doing
" Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head. "
Pico Iyer
Dark
Try
Know
" Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent. "
Adoniram Judson
Execution
Wisdom
True
" It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. "
William Ralph Inge
Mankind
Little
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" Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom
Goodness
Root
" The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. "
John Kenneth Galbraith
March
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" Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. "
Aeschylus
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" Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. "
Thomas Reid
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Equally
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