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«To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.»
Author: Akhenaton | About: Wisdom | Keywords: cares, contented, great care, hidden, riches, satisfied, treasure, with great care
«To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,»
Author: Horace Walpole | About: Action, Common sense, Happiness, Philosophy, Wisdom | Keywords: bless, duties, respectfully, submit
«To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.»
Author: Marilyn vos Savant (Journalist) | About: Wisdom | Keywords: observe
«To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel | About: Age, Wisdom | Keywords: Art of Living, chapters, old master, Old Masters, the Master
«To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Life, Solution, Wisdom | Keywords: fool, problem, solution, The Fool, wise
«Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy | About: Tragedy, Wisdom | Keywords: tool
«To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | About: Generosity, Wisdom | Keywords: firm, generous
«To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Philosophy, Simplicity, Wisdom | Keywords: dictates
«To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.»
Author: Saint Augustine (Bishop, Theologian) | About: Wisdom | Keywords: apprehension, apprehensions, belongs, eternal, intellectual, rational, temporal
«Travelling makes a man wiser, but less happy.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Travel, Wisdom | Keywords: travelling
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