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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. -- Oprah Winfrey
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -- Socrates
True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people. -- Kiana Tom
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. -- Socrates
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. -- Akhenaton
Silence is true wisdom's best reply. -- Euripides
True wisdom is knowing what you don't know -- Confucius
True wisdom always leads us to please God. -- Anthony DeStefano
If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true. -- Mark Twain
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge. -- Socrates
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. -- David Hume
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self. -- John Calvin
Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble. -- Shri Radhe Maa
The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing. -- Michel de Montaigne
If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible. -- Matt Chandler
Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. -- Lao Tzu
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. -- George Arliss
Become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise. -- Frederick Lenz
Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
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. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Richard Whately
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent. -- Adoniram Judson
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. -- Mary Astell
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts. -- Abraham Lincoln
True wisdom reveals itself by loving everyone. -- Debasish Mridha
True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion. -- Allan Lokos
True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion. -- Allan Lokos
True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance. -- Socrates
True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes. -- Oliver Goldsmith
True wisdom is found in simplicity and in humility. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do -- Paulo Coelho
True wisdom can never find fault or a person at fault. -- Debasish Mridha
True: fear is the beginning of wisdom, but love perfects it! -- Stefan Emunds
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride. -- Proclus
True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love. -- L. Ron Hubbard
From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it. -- Thiruvalluvar
The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions. -- Debasish Mridha
The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer. -- John Calvin
Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating. -- Mark Kurlansky
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield. -- Elizabeth George
If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher? -- Zhuangzi
Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue. -- Gautama Buddha
The years of wisdom in a man's age are where the true meanings of his life lie. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. -- Lao Tzu
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered. -- John Calvin
True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness. -- Whittaker Chambers
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. -- Aristotle
The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom. -- Allan Lokos
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. -- Josh Billings
The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. -- Lactantius
True education does not fill our minds with facts but teach us how to think to gain wisdom. -- Debasish Mridha
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model. -- Seneca the Younger
True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things. -- Heraclitus
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. -- John Calvin
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching -- John Ruskin
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat. -- Joyce Cary
Wisdom comes from experience, but experience is not enough. Experience anticipated and experience revisited is the true source of wisdom. -- John Grinder
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. -- Lactantius
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Be educated. Only true education and wisdom can lighten the burdens of your life and fill it with joy and happiness. -- Debasish Mridha
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear -- Zhuangzi
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom. -- Max Born
Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind. -- Jonathan Edwards
True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction. -- Joseph Addison
Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y -- David Levithan
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
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness. -- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge. -- Marianne Williamson
The sign of a true Guardian is to guide a child with integrity and to leave the student with the wisdom of choice. -- Peter SMith Talking Cures
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them. -- Nicholas of Cusa
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. -- Confucius
The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion. -- Lord Acton
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life. -- Tryon Edwards
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character. -- David O. McKay
The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty. -- Pope Leo I
Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom. -- Herbert Simon
He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing. -- Ludwig Feuerbach
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. -- John Calvin
I think the conventional wisdom is vastly true. There will be a huge growth in mobile, and this is something we are witnessing every day. -- Maurice Levy
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
The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons. -- Khalil Gibran
The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange. -- Walt Whitman
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true -- Freeman Dyson
Whoever thinks from a distance about his situation lives it with suffering; whoever is close to it lives it with consolation, the fruit of a true wisdom. -- Simone Troisi
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice. -- Joseph Story
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. -- Henry David Thoreau
True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion -- P. C. Cast
Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels. -- Tony Samara
The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all. -- Forest Whitaker
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. -- Michael Eisen
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. -- William Whitehead
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place -- Abigail Van Buren
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. -- Frederick Lenz
The goal of our life's effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached. -- Shunryu Suzuki

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