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Wisdom Quotes
On wisdom gained through age and patience.
One quote here frames aging itself as a kind of accumulation - experience and wisdom worn like notches, alongside real comfort in one's own skin. Related reading: Experience.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hard
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Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.
- Man
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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
- Ignorance
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
- Alone
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No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
- Confused
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.
- Conventional Wisdom
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I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
- Know
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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
- Hope
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
- Power
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Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020