#wisdom

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. ↗

— Wade Davis

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A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#heart #loving #truest #truest wisdom #wisdom

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. ↗

— William Blake

#folly #hours #measure #measured #wisdom

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. ↗

— William Blake

#buy #children #dance #experience #hath

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#sit #weigh #wisdom

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#consolation #great #great source #me #mother

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#albeit #illusion #merely #persistent #reality

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#go #instead #lead #leave #may

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. ↗

— Epicurus

#friendship #greatest #happy #make #much

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. ↗

— David Brainerd

#beheld #deplorable #eye #father #god