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“I am old enough to know that you can never say for sure what someone else will do.”
— Lagertha Lothbrok, Vikings, Season 5: The Departed Part Two
Tagged: Wisdom, Uncertainty
“As much as death takes from us, it also gives. It teaches us what is truly important, like giving back after a lifetime of taking, going after something we should have never let go of, or looking on to what made us who we are.”
— Mary Alice Young, Desperate Housewives, Season 8: Women and Death
Tagged: Death, Life, Wisdom, Giving, Taking
“I'm cracking eggs of wisdom!”
— Charlie Kelly, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Season 1: Charlie Has Cancer
Tagged: eggs, Wisdom, Problem Solving
“Is it so far from madness to wisdom?”
— George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings / A Storm of Swords / A Feast for Crows / A Dance with Dragons(Song of Ice and Fire Series) (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Tagged: Madness, Insanity, Wisdom, Mindset, Words, Mind
“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”
— Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
Tagged: Science, Magic, Magical, Wisdom, Cleverness
“Wisdom comes from knowing that what others say about you is not your reality. It’s their reality.”
— Kristin Michelle Elizabeth, It Doesn’t Matter What Others Think Of You, It Matters What You Think Of You
Tagged: Wisdom, Mottos
“Think lightly of yourself and think deeply of the world.”
— Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi's Dokkodo (The Way of Walking Alone): Half Crazy, Half Genius- Finding Modern Meaning in the Sword Saint's Last Words
Tagged: Wisdom, Self-Esteem, Respect
“You must cultivate your wisdom and spirit. Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the Ways of different arts one by one. When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realized the wisdom of strategy.”
— Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
Tagged: Wisdom, Spirit, Justice, Good And Evil, strategy
“Since [Walton v. Arizona, 497 U.S.], I have acquired new wisdom ...or, to put it more critically, have discarded old ignorance.”
— Antonin Scalia, {{meta.pageTitle}}
Tagged: Supreme Court Decisions, Wisdom, Ignorance
“Sometimes you have to choose between planting roots or growing wings.”
— Unknown, Positivity
Tagged: Quotes To Live By, Wisdom, Inspirational, Father and Daughter
“The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.”
— Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery(Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Wisdom, social equality, Privileges, Struggle
“I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I make a distinction between the wisdom of age—which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based on the experiences of a long life—and the creative genius of youth, which blossoms out in thoughts and ideas with inexhaustible fertility, without being able to put these into practice immediately, because of their very superabundance. These furnish the building materials and plans for the future; and it is from them that age takes the stones and builds the edifice, unless the so-called wisdom of the years may have smothered the creative genius of youth.”
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Tagged: Youth, Youth Movements in Politics, Genius, Fertility, Wisdom, Generation Gap
“A rather serious—maybe too serious—university

student from another country came to Hafiz to

personally ask for his permission to translate some

of Hafiz's poems into a little book.

And he said to Hafiz, ‘What is the essential

quality in your poems that I
need to incorporate in

my translations to make them
abiding and authentic?’

And Hafiz smiled, and placed his arms
on the man's

shoulders, then said, ‘Do you
really want to know?’

And the young man said, ‘Of course.’

‘Well, well then,’ Hafiz began and
 continued,

‘My poems lift the corners of the mouth—
the soul's

mouth, the heart's mouth.
And can effect any opening

that can make love.’”
— Hafiz of Persia, The mystical poet who can help you lead a better life
Tagged: university, Students, Wisdom, Poems, Poetry
“Nature, in her wisdom, seems to have arranged it so that men's stupidity should be ephemeral, and books make them immortal. A fool ought to be content having exacerbated everyone around him, but he insists tormenting future generations.”
— Baron de Montesquieu, Persian Letters(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: stupidity, Brain, Fools, Wisdom
“Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.”
— Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God
Tagged: Wisdom, personal
“If you drive slowly, you'll arrive more quickly.”
— Yiddish Proverbs, Yiddish proverbs curated by LEAH RACHEL YOFFIE
Tagged: confusing, Paradoxes, Wisdom, Examples of Paradoxes
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,
He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little or too much;
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused or disabused;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Go, wondrous creature! mount where science guides,
Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;
Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old time, and regulate the sun;
Go, soar with Plato to th’ empyreal sphere,
To the first good, first perfect, and first fair;
Or tread the mazy round his followers trod,
And quitting sense call imitating God;
As Eastern priests in giddy circles run,
And turn their heads to imitate the sun.
Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule—
Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!”
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
Tagged: Wisdom, Self-knowledge
“No friend is better than your own wise heart! Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself. Although many people can be your helper, no one should be closer to you than your own consciousness. Although there are many things you should cherish, no one is more valuable than your own life.”
— Genghis Khan, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Tagged: Friend, heart, Wisdom, Consciousness, self-preservation
“No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.”
— Baruch Spinoza, Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise(Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) 1st (first) edition
Tagged: Understanding, Wisdom, Laughter, Lamentations, Detest
“You could perhaps say ‘happiness’ but ‘happiness’ is misleading, for it suggests continuous chirpiness and joy, whereas ‘fulfillment’ seems compatible with a lot of pain and suffering, which every decent life must by necessity have.”
— Alain de Botton, The School of Life: An Interview With Alain de Botton
Tagged: Philosophy, How To Think, Spirituality, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Happiness, Illusions, Truth

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