Wisdom, the essence found in quotations & art.

 

 

What we really are matters more

than what other people think of us.

 Jawaharlal Nehru

 

 

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson 

 

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; 

but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

William Blake 

 

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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau 

 

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Our scientists need to have more than knowledge: 

they need to have wisdom as well. 

And wisdom I define as knowledge 

plus the awareness of its limitations.

 

 Viktor Frankl

 

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Seek wisdom, not knowledge.

Knowledge is of the past,

wisdom is of the future.

 

Lumbee

 

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Wisdom is found 

only in truth.

 

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

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Knowledge comes 

but wisdom lingers.

 

Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

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Who is a wise man?

He who learns of all men.

 

The Talmud

 

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Nothing would be done at all

if a man waited until he could do it so well

that no-one could find fault with it.  

 

Cardinal Newman  

 

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

the courage to change the things I can,

and the wisdom to know the difference.

 

Reinhold Niebuhr

 

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Only in the oasis of silence 

can we drink deeply from our inner cup of wisdom.

 

Sue Patton Thoele

American Psychotherapist

 

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Song of Athena

by

R Franklin

 
Finish Each Day -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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