#wisdom

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

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If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. ↗

— Anonymous

#faith

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

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Ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. ↗

— Scott Adams

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We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#forgiveness

Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

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I would have liked to come into the grocery some morning and see them all, even the Elberts and the children, lying there crying with the pain of dying. I would help myself to groceries, I thought, stepping over their bodies, taking whatever I fancied from the shelves, and go home, with perhaps a kick for Mrs.Donell while she lay there. I was never sorry when I had thoughts like this; I only wished they would come true. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#violent #wisdom #home

What you do is so loud, I can't hear what you say." Anonymous ↗

— Mike Addington

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