Quotes and sayings about tag  wisdom

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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Gabriel García Márquez

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Gautama Buddha

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Gautama Buddha

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[Verse 223]

Gautama Buddha

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Gautama Buddha

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

Gautama Buddha

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

George Eliot

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

George Orwell

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

George R.R. Martin

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

Hamza Yusuf

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