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«I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received»
«I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had»
«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.»
«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.»
«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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