#wisdom

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#philosophy #wisdom #art

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. ↗

— Plato

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He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. ↗

— Confucius

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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

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Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#comes #late #merely #never #often

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#be happy #forever #good #great #happiness

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#appetite #color #does #firmness #itself

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#experience #far #go #instruction #learned