#wisdom

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Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.


Herman Hesse


#breathing #capacity #every #feeling #life

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.


Thomas Hobbes


#law #makes #wisdom

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.


Dee Hock


#also #different #employ #essential #humility

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.


Groucho Marx


#wisdom #humor

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.


Oliver Wendell Holmes


#exceptions #knows #man #old #old man

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.


Oliver Wendell Holmes


#listen #privilege #province #speak #wisdom

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.


Oliver Wendell Holmes


#beauty #future #past #promise #wisdom

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.


T.F. Hodge


#experience #grave #growth #joy #life

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.


Bell Hooks


#buddhism #enlightenment #experience #first-hand #important

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.


Herbert Hoover


#knowing #much #next #ultimate #wisdom