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«I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received»
Author: Antonio Porchia | About: Friendship, Wisdom | Keywords: given, givens, received
«I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had»
Author: Margaret Mead | About: Wisdom | Keywords: fooling, grow up
«I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.»
Author: Anatole France (Writer) | About: Enthusiasm, Wisdom | Keywords: enthusiasm, folly, indifference, prefer, preferring
«I have discovered nothing new, I have only perceived what I already knew.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker) | About: Knowledge, Truth, Wisdom | Keywords: perceived
«I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Power, Wisdom | Keywords: The Less
«I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | About: Doing Your Best, Wisdom | Keywords: today, wiser, yesterday
«I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | About: Conviction, Wisdom | Keywords: About me, conviction, driven, drive in, from nowhere, had, insufficient, knees, My own, nowhere, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, seemed, times, time of day, wisdom
«I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi (Philosopher) | About: Beauty, Feelings, Friendship, Love, Needs, Peace, Team work, Wisdom | Keywords: flows, offer, peace offering, salute, saluted, salutes, source, unity
«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.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | About: Poetry, Wisdom | Keywords: decided, deliver, enabled, inspiration, instinct, in the least, messages, poetry, poets, Prophets, seers, sublime, such as
«Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.»
Author: Sigmund Freud (Founder) | About: Business, Happiness, Wisdom | Keywords: admonish, admonished, admonishing, anticipate, avoids, businessman, cautious, investing, quarter
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