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Letter "W" » Wisdom
«In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.»
Author: Elder Richard G. Scott
| About:
Life,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
critically, crowd, crowd out, essential, moments, quiet, Quiet Life, recognize, think about
«If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today»
Author: Olin Miller
| About:
Wisdom
«If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.»
Author: Omar Bradley
(General)
| About:
Prudence,
Technology,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
executioner, executioners, prudence, servant, technology
«If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
devil, fellows, like the devil, the Devil, The Fellows, young
«In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self»
«In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Fool,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
answer, Any Questions, ask, ask for it, ask in, Examinations, foolish, out of the question, questions, wise, wised, wise up
«In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we are actually in control of our world, which is further from reality than an all-parrot moon landing. The universe, our universe, is out of our control. We live on a speck drifting around in an infinite vacuum with countless trillions of other specks. Our world is in a perpetual state of perfect chaos and entropy, with everything falling apart and dying and being born haphazardly. Meanwhile, we try to make life as neat and clean and orderly as a computer research facility, when in fact it is more like a junkyard. It always has been, and it always will be, no matter how much fussing and sweating and striving we do to make it different.»
Author: Robert White
| About:
Doing Your Best,
Happiness,
Inspiration,
Knowledge,
Learning,
Life,
People,
Success,
Understanding,
Wisdom
«If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
communicate, communicates, offered, refuse, restriction, restrictions, The Gift
«Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Ignorance,
Men,
People,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
beyond, both, either, existence, ignorant, middle, Middle way, non, observation, transcended, transcends, Wise Men
«If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.»
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