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Wisdom

«Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'»
«Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.»
Author: Dale E. Turner | About: Mistakes, Wisdom | Keywords: lessons
«Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.»
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev (President) | About: God, Nations, Wisdom | Keywords: refused
«Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.»
«Spiritual and religious traditions, when shaped by the feminine principle, affirm the cyclical phrases of our lives and the wisdom each phase brings, the sacredness of our bodies and the body of the Earth»
«Technology is changing our lives. It cannot and will not change what is fundamental to the human condition. It will never change the way we are, or how we feel. The more technology we create, the more we seem confused, side-tracked with what we are conned into believing will improve our lives in the future. Always the future. Anything to get us off thinking about who we are right now, and how we might make our relationships more rewarding and loving. Too many times, all of that is put on hold.»
«Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.»
«So wise so young, they say, do never live long.»
«That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Wisdom
«Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.»