Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.
EpictetusTags: wisdom philosophy be-honest grow learn-to-think understand-what-you-read
The past has no power over the present moment.
Eckhart TolleTags: wisdom life inspirational truth education philosophy
And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.
René DescartesTags: wisdom truth logic rationality
For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief.
AnonymousWe need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
Abraham H. MaslowTags: wisdom good heroes superstition wise gods supernatural disbelief statesmen explain sages
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
Tags: wisdom knowledge learning poetry philosophy teaching
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George WashingtonTags: wisdom
The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.
Patrick JonesTags: wisdom different rebels metaphor authority
End of a matter is better than its beginning
AnonymousTags: wisdom
Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended with vigilance, else it dies out.
Libba BrayTags: wisdom
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