#wisdom

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. ↗

— Francis Quarles

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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. ↗

— Dan Rather

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Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom. ↗

— Myrtle Reed

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And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also. ↗

— Thomas Reid

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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. ↗

— Thomas Reid

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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

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In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ↗

— Martin Henry Fischer

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At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#landscape #life #nature #wisdom #beauty