#wisdom

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

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When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#pain #wisdom #life

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#comes #late #merely #never #often

If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it. ↗

— Craig Groeschel

#wisdom #life

Wisdom begins in wonder. ↗

— Socrates

#begins #wonder

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. ↗

— Socrates

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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. ↗

— Socrates

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ↗

— Socrates

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