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Related Topic(s): Elder; Wisdom
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Study the men of old and listen to old men! He is a poor sage who has no wisdom but his own; and a poor scholar who has nothing but his learning.
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Related Topic(s): Age; Experience; Learning; Wisdom
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The evening of life brings its Lamp with it."
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Related Topic(s): Aging; Wisdom
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The evening of life brings with it its lamp.
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Related Topic(s): Age; Wisdom
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The residue of human wisdom, refined by old age, is perhaps the best thing we have.
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Related Topic(s): Meditation; Wisdom
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The wisdom of man drives away life's ills, But divine wisdom alone shows us true blessings. Animation is needed in the quest of human wisdom, but the way to divine wisdom is meditation, repose.
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Related Topic(s): Power; Strength; Wisdom
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There is a right of greater wisdom; but no right of greater strength.
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Related Topic(s): Potential; Soul; Spirit; Wisdom
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Wisdom is a science by which we discriminate between things spiritually good and evil. It is the science of sciences, for alone, it can understand the value, the true price, the real uses, the danger, and the potentialities of the soul.
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Related Topic(s): Wisdom
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Wisdom is repose in light. Happy the minds that are exalted enough to rejoice in its radiance.
Joubert
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Related Topic(s): Wisdom
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Wisdom is the strength of the weak.
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Related Topic(s): Wisdom
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Rule a large country as one would cook a small fish--
with very little stirring, else everything turns to paste.
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Related Topic(s): Ignoring; Seeing; Selectivity; Wisdom
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Related Topic(s): Courage; Wisdom
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Jugurtha possessed both wisdom in council and valor on the field, qualities not often united in the same person: For the confidence which courage supplies is sometimes damped by foresight; and sometimes foresight is overborne by a rashness, which the virtue should restrain."
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Sallust
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust, (86-34 BC), a Roman historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines. Throughout his career Sallust always stood by his principle as a popularis, an opposer of Pompey's party and the old aristocracy of Rome. |
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Related Topic(s): Bravery; Life; Madness; Wisdom
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The madness of the brave is the wisdom of life.
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| Maxim Gorky |
Maxim Gorky was born in Russia, and became a Russian/Soviet author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929 he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time, although he was not permitted to leave the country. (From Wikipedia) |
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Related Topic(s): Action; Knowledge; Wisdom
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Activity is the only road to knowledge.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Nobel Prize in Literature
1925
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay
1938 Pygmalion
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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856Â - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. He was also an essayist, novelist and short story writer. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems with a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Issues which engaged Shaw's attention included education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
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Related Topic(s): Heart; Power; Story; Wisdom
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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.
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Related Topic(s): Freedom; Pain; Pleasure; Wisdom
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Not pleasure, but freedom from pain is what the wise man will aim at.
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| Aristotle |
From the wiki: Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality, aesthetics, logic, science, politics, and metaphysics. |
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Related Topic(s): Knowledge; Sharing; Teaching; Wisdom
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I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.
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Related Topic(s): Friend; Love; Madness; Stranger; Wisdom
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In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
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Related Topic(s): Experience; Feminine; Love; Poetry; Poets; Shadow; Vulnerability; Wisdom
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Every poet, I suppose, should fall madly in love at least once in her life, so that she may come to know the shadow side of the feminine human experience, plumb the depth of her own vulnerability and emerge the wiser.
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Related Topic(s): Wisdom
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rene Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 - 29 December 1926)""better known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈÊaɪnÉ maˈÊiËa ˈÊɪlkÉ™])""was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical". His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers.
Rilke was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, travelled extensively throughout Europe, including Russia, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and in his later years settled in Switzerland""settings that were key to the genesis and inspiration for many of his poems. While Rilke is most known for his contributions to German literature, over 400 poems were originally written in French and dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Among English-language readers, his best-known works include the poetry collections Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus), the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title Letters to a Young Poet (Briefe an einen jungen Dichter). In the later 20th century, his work has found new audiences through its use by New Age theologians and self-help authors, and through frequent quoting in television programs, books and motion pictures. In the United States, Rilke is one of the more popular, best-selling poets""along with 13th-century Sufi mystic Rumi and 20th-century Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran.
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