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" Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way. "

Sharon Salzberg

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" He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. "

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" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

" The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. "

" Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with. "

" The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. "

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" Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. "

" If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. "

" Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. "

" The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. "

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" Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom. "

" Trouble shared is trouble halved. "

" Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion. "

" Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin. "

" It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films. "

" 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. "

" The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. "

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" There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. "

" Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. "

" Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. "

" Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. "

" Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. "

" The doors of wisdom are never shut. "

" The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. "

" Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. "

" Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. "

" Commitment is an act, not a word. "

" Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. "