#wisdom

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible. ↗

— Ram Dass

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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came toseemtrue. Thisexercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking, and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better. ↗

— Jayleigh Cape

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The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether. ↗

— Saul Bellow

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Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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The biggest challenge for a man is to attain the wisdom of 80 years of age in youth! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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Get better with age or else age will get the better of you. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

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The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #the-strength-of-a-woman #true-strength #wisdom-quotes #women