#wisdom

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived. ↗

#beauty #cannot #faked #having #impossible

...the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God. ↗

— Harry Blamires

#english-literature #god #religion #truth #wisdom

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#doubt #fool #going #greatest #greatest obstacle

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#law #makes #wisdom

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. ↗

— Dee Hock

#also #different #employ #essential #humility

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#wisdom #humor

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#exceptions #knows #man #old #old man

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#listen #privilege #province #speak #wisdom

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. ↗