#wisdom

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life. ↗

— Plato

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Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down. ↗

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

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Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death. ↗

— Robert M. Price

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In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like. ↗

— Os Guinness

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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. ↗

— Brian Tracy

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