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Letter "W" » Wisdom
«Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.»
«Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.»
«Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...»
«Dip your tongue in wisdom, then give counsel»
«Everything we enjoy in society is a direct result of the accumulated learning derived from millions of mistakes. No mistakes, no progress. Yet we still look at making a mistake as embarrassing, wrong, an act bordering on sin. If you?re making mistakes, it means you?re doing new things, taking risks, stretching yourself. You?re growing, learning. And isn't the journey, the experience, not the destination, what life is all about?»
«Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.»
Author: Swami Sivananda
(Founder, Monk, Physician)
| About:
Attitude,
Change,
Life,
Mistakes,
Motivation,
Wisdom
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brood, brooded, broods, depression, depressions, failures, fill, future, grief, mistakes, past, regret, repeat, the Depression, The future
«Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat»
«Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Education,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
brutes, with wisdom
«Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.»
«Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Earth,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
carrion, inspired, raven, ravens, smell, The Raven, The Ravens
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