Great Wisdom Quotes

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  We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

  Marcel Proust

  Wise, Wisdom, Im Sorry

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Purity, Purification, Ability

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• It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

  John of the Cross

  Silence, Looks, Deeds

  St. John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross”, p.93, ICS Publications

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• Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Life Lesson, Giving, Age

  “Failure to Launch: When Beauty Fades” by Elizabeth Whrtzel, www.elle.com. May 20, 2009.

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• The best way I have found to follow my true desires is to pay attention to my intuitive sense. We all have great wisdom within us, a part of us that knows exactly what we need at every moment. We are born with this intuitive sense, but most of us are quickly taught to distrust and ignore it. We have to relearn something that should come naturally. Fortunately, it's not too difficult; it just takes some practice.

  Shakti Gawain

  Practice, Intuition, Desire

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• Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

  Peter Drucker

  Data, Marketing, Action

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Youll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. Its inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it.

  Albert Finney

  Winning, Men, Losing

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• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

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• The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Trying, Life Is, Masters

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• The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Wisdom, Dark

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• Ideas are merely sensations imprinted deep inside us...Like attracts like...There is great wisdom in the subconscious mind. If you begin to work with it, it can be of tremendous benefit to you and serve as an excellent reservoir of knowledge.

  James Van Praagh

  Motivational, Ideas, Mind

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• There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

  Van Jones

  Should

  Source: pen.org

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• Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, Insanity, Insane

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• The integral approach is committed to the full spectrum of consciousness as it manifests in all its extraordinary diversity. This allows the integral approach to recognize and honor the Great Holarchy of Being first elucidated by the perennial philosophy and the great wisdom traditions in general... The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.

  Ken Wilber

  Philosophy, Diversity, Honor

  "The Eye of Spirit : An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad". Book by Ken Wilber, 1997.

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• ..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western philosophy, and the world's great wisdom traditions. Not on the level of details-that is finitely impossible; but on the level of orienting generalizations: a way to suggest that the world really is one, undivided, whole, and related to itself in every way: a holistic philosophy for a holistic Kosmos, a plausible Theory of Everything.

  Ken Wilber

  Philosophy, Together, World

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• The time has come in our society when I see great wisdom and purpose in a United States Constitutional amendment declaring that marriage is between a man and a woman. There is nothing in that proposed amendment that requires a criminal prosecution or that directs the attorneys general to go out and round people up, but it declares a principle and it also creates a defensive barrier against those who would alter that traditional definition of marriage.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Men, People, Principles

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage - that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Sight

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• No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sacrifice, Without Sacrifice

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

  Parker Stevenson

  Wisdom, Would Be, Interviews

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• The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Writing, Tempo

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• New Self, New World is an extraordinary work—an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world’s great wisdom traditions and the majestic individuals who have experienced them. This book is about achieving the highest dimensions of which humans are capable. Highly recommended.

  Larry Dossey

  Book, Self, World

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• Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

  Zhuangzi

  Wisdom, Speech, Contentious

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