#wisdom

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

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The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#argue #hug #just #love #means

For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook. ↗

— William James

#learning #overlook

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#away #conventional #conventional wisdom #i #know

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end. ↗

— John Jewel

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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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