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  • Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

    Wisdom   Gay   Mirth  
    Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.15, Courier Corporation
  • True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

    Wisdom   Mind   Argument  
    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.247
  • Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

    Wise   Wisdom   Wish  
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.710, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1993). “Reason, Tolerance, and Christianity: The Ingersoll Debates”
  • True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

    Wise   Fool   Compromise  
  • You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.

  • A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

    School   Boys   Years  
    Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions”, p.138
  • True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do

    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 01, 2014
  • If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.

  • True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

    John Tillotson (1720). “The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions”, p.412
  • Become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true.

    Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, p.3, Random House
  • Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

    "3 Inspiring Business Lessons From Billionaire Media Mogul Oprah Winfrey" by Kim Lachance Shandrow, www.foxnews.com. August 2, 2016.
  • It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.

  • True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

  • Guru Arjun tells us that the truth we seek is within ourselves, and I agree. The answers to many of our greatest desires, needs, and longings are inside. We only need to know how to retrieve them. The most powerful vehicle for retrieving our longed for answers is applied intelligence, which is the combination of information and experience. Applied intelligence brings true wisdom because it includes experience, usually on a deep level.

    Powerful   Truth   Desire  
  • ... where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh of the Lord: for the true Wisdom did not dwell in another's building, but built for Itself that dwelling-place from the body of the Virgin.

  • When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true wisdom reveals itself.

  • True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

  • A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.

    "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.
  • The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.

  • True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

  • With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

  • To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

  • The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

  • Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

  • But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

    Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.1959, e-artnow
  • True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.

    Wise   Memories   Spring  
    Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.2
  • In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.

    Masao Abe (2016). “Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought”, p.15, Springer
  • It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.

    Kings   Plato   Teaching  
    Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.95, Routledge
  • True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

    Gore Vidal (1982). “Création: a novel”
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