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„I was never interested in the obvious, or in the details one takes for granted, and everybody seemed to be addicted to the obvious, being astonished by it, and forever harping about the details which I had long ago weighted, measured, and discarded as irrelevant and useless. If you can measure it, don’t. If you can weigh it, it isn’t worth the bother. It isn’t what you’re after. It isn’t going to get it. My wisdom was visual and as swift as vision. I looked, I saw, I understood, I felt, “That’s that, where do we go from here?”“
„Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.“
„The inexperienced in wisdom and virtue, ever occupied with feasting and such, are carried downward, and there, as is fitting, they wander their whole life long, neither ever looking upward to the truth above them nor rising toward it, nor tasting pure and lasting pleasures. Like cattle, always looking downward with their heads bent toward the ground and the banquet tables, they feed, fatten, and fornicate. In order to increase their possessions they kick and butt with horns and hoofs of steel and kill each other, insatiable as they are.“
„Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].“
„I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed … from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.“
„Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That’s how our Father listens to us … We never understand what we’re praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.“
„My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.“
„God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.“
„The Bible is a seemingly inexhaustible source of practical wisdom that could serve as a valuable resource for everyday living.“
„The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposition position. I assume that markets are always wrong. Even if my assumption is occasionally wrong, I use it as a working hypothesis.“
„Then I rose, wiping the blunts ash from my clothesthen froze only to blow the herb smoke through my noseand told my little man that i’m a go cyprosethere’s some jewels in the skull that he can sell if he chosewords of wisdom from nas try to rise up above“
„The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.“
„How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.“
„In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.“
„I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue…“
„I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright. I was also born old. And illegitimate. But the two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.“
„The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.“
„For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sitsnear them, waiting.“
„The owl of wisdom flies, as is well known, after sunset. Thus the theory of a “socialist” system of money and prices was developed only after twilight of inflationist illusions.“
„Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.“
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