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«We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia | About: Failure, Success, Wisdom | Keywords: antithesis, failure, failures, gain, lies, often, Other side, readily, seem, side, sided, Side Out, successes, the Other, The other side, think of, through, wisdom
«True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.»
Author: Louis Nizer | About: God, Life, Religion, Truth, Wisdom
«We must become the change we want to see.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi (Philosopher) | About: Change, Doing Your Best, Empowerment, Life, Wisdom
«We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Wisdom | Keywords: knowledgeable
«We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.»
Author: Marcel Proust (Author, Novelist) | About: Wisdom | Keywords: spare, take for
«We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | About: Wisdom
«True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model»
Author: Seneca | About: Wisdom | Keywords: departing, model, molding, moldings
«Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Travel, Wisdom
«We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.»
Author: William Orville Douglas | About: Wisdom | Keywords: weigh
«We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys»
Author: William Arthur Ward | About: Learning, Wisdom | Keywords: guys, wisecrack, wisecracking, wisecracks, wise guy
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