#wisdom

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. ↗

— Epictetus

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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. ↗

— Aristotle

#self-discovery #wisdom #wisdom

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#stop #walking #wisdom

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

#creatures #else #eternal #god #immutable

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#call #ears #education #every #hand

I want to see an elephant hunt down a man for the sole purpose of collecting his teeth, while a chorus of typewriters sings songs that praises the bananas for their wisdom, leadership, and their high levels of potassium. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #dada #funny #humor #hunt

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #impossible #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow! ↗

— William Eardley IV

#achieve #bless #i #i can #lord

Reading all the quotes in the world won’t make you or me into Plato, Gandhi Or Einstein, just like watching hundreds games of soccer won’t make you a soccer player or taking a yoga class will make u a yogini, or reading a golf book will make you a golfer. We need to put the Knowledge to practice and that is the challenge. Put it to work for you, make the effort to Follow Through ↗

— Pablo

#wisdom #yoga