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«Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Meaning,
Philosophy,
Universe,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
fundamental, go together, secrets
«Recognize your history, in the present, to know your future.»
Author: Helene Lagerberg
| About:
Wisdom
«Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.»
«Patience is the companion of wisdom.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Patience,
Wisdom
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companion, Companion of, patience
«Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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Wisdom
| Keywords:
discipline, instruction, practical, Precepts, real life, school, School of, so far, theory, The school, useful
«Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Self-control,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
far left, left and right, not only, Right Thing, tempting, unsaid, unsay
«Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Philosophy,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
defined, rightly
«Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Common sense,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
extremities, extremity, good sense, shuns, sobriety
«Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
aright, equally, fleeing, flees, fortitude, in public, meeting, parts, private parts, subdues, subduing, temperance
«Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth»
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