#wisdo

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. ↗

— George MacDonald

#appreciate #assumptions #body #demon #disease

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#action #been #few #foolish #many

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. ↗

— James Madison

#betray #calculate #every #every nation #loss

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#done #going #i #into #keep

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. ↗

— Mo Udall

#gentle #give #lord #may #tender

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ↗

— Henry Miller

#give #inhabit #lack #make #orders

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. ↗

— Keith Miller

#pain #truth #wisdom

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#bar #between #depends #difference #faux

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. ↗

— Holly Near

#guts #huge #intelligence #keep #leap

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#called #dictionary #great #made #memory