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I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow.May the fire of love grow in our hearts. May the fire of transformation glow in our movements. May the fire of purification burn away our sins. May the fire of justice guide our steps. May the fire of wisdom illuminate our paths. May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished.
Paulo Coelho
From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.
Rae Carson
Who can tell truth from falsehood any more?I say it, and you feel it in your hearts:no man or woman on this big small earth.How should our sages miss the mark of life,and our most skillful players lose the game?your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me:because all know, and no one understands.
E.E. Cummings
Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.
Dan Millman
errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.
Andrew Lang
We are confronted with the incompatible claims of Jerusalem and Athens to our allegiance. We are open to both and willing to listen to each. We ourselves are not wise but we wish to become wise. We are seekers for wisdom, philo-sophoi.
Leo Strauss
At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.
Lee L. Jampolsky
Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak.
Carl Sandburg
Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.
Robert A.F. Thurman
When you stand in the crowd,you stand like the cloud-baseless.But when you stand out of the crowd,you're 'out-standing' like the proud -limitless.Stand out to be 'out-standing
Emmanuel Aghado
Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship.
Epicurus
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
William Blake
To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love.
Dejan Stojanovic
I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
George Bernard Shaw
A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.
Giovanni Della Casa
Ego is recessive in wisdom.
Toba Beta
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
Martin Luther King Jr.
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
Mortimer J. Adler
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
Friedrich Nietzsche