"Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives."

Bhagavad Gita on Compassion
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"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more."

Cowper, William on Knowledge
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"So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom."

Bible on Wisdom
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"In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."

Bible on Wisdom
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"They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on Wisdom
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"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."

Proverb, Chinese on Names
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"The end result of wisdom is... good deeds."

Talmud, The on Wisdom
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"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Cheerfulness
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"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

Frost, Robert on Poetry and Poets
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"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."

Carlyle, Thomas on Ignorance
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"The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

Blake, William on Excess
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"Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Wisdom
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"Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom."

Proverb, Chinese on Doubt
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"Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure."

Talmud, The on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom."

Proverb, Welsh on Fools and Foolishness
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on Love
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"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool."

Azai, Rabbi Ben on Wisdom
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"The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]"

Bible on Wisdom
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"Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches."

Bible on Wisdom
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"The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart."

Bhagavad Gita on Wisdom
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"The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Cheerfulness
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"When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body."

Saadi on Spirit and Spirituality
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"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

Saadi on Patience
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"I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not."

Saadi on God
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"He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God."

Saadi on Food and Eating
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"Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance."

Saadi on Argument
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"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]"

Bible on Knowledge
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"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Wisdom
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"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on Wisdom
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"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information."

Eliot, T. S. on Information
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"Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow."

Emre, Yumus on Truth
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"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."

Huxley, Aldous on Proverbs
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"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."

Parker, Dorothy on Wit
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"The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth."

Hesse, Hermann on Truth
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"There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."

Bohr, Niels on Truth
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"Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration."

Richard of Saint Victor on Prayer
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"In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched."

Carlyle, Thomas on Symbols
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"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

Diderot, Denis on Theology
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"Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Arts and Artists
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"For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on Purpose
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