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Wisdom
«The teachings of elegant sayings should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, any price will be paid.»
Author: Siddha Nagarjuna
| About:
Quotations,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
collected, elegant, sayings, teachings
«The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Self-development,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
at the best, bred, contradict, contradicted, contradicting, had best, other, Other People, people, peopled, themselves, The WELL, well-bred, well, welled, wise, wised, wise up
«The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Teachers and teaching,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
bid, enter, house, House of, indeed, leads, teacher, The Teacher, threshold, thresholds
«The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Solidarity,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
benefits, compete, harm, helps, hoard, hoarded, hoarding, hoards, Others The, sage, sager
«The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
cheerfulness, continual, plainest, regions, serene, The Moon