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For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Kahlil Gibran
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows
Thomas Jefferson
You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.
Carole Wilkinson
One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.
Andy Andrews
Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind.
Orson Scott Card
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Paton
The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.
Joseph Boyden
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
Nigel Farage
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
John Florio
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
Keith Miller
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Lord Salisbury
Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Marcus Aurelius
When in doubt, choose to live.
Terry Pratchett
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot
Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.
Paulo Coelho
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Roger Ascham
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Walter Scott
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
Jose Bergamin