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Quotes About Balance

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.
~ Daniel Defoe
Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.
~ Laozi
Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate
~ Dennis Prager
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
~ William Stafford
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
~ Omar N. Bradley
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.
~ Georges St-Pierre
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
~ Confucius
Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
~ Pythagoras
How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole
~ C.G. Jung
When we learn to eat properly we begin to rebuild our bodies and to fulfill our purpose on this planet to grow in health, creativity, wisdom, and compassion.
~ Ann Wigmore
It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.
~ Jim Hightower
Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; Love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.
~ Rumi
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
~ Benjamin Cardozo
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
~ John Ray
Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.
~ David Icke
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
~ Albert Einstein
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
~ Victor Hugo
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
~ Voltaire
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
~ M. Scott Peck
He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.
~ Paul Brunton