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Quotes About Balance

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.
~ Cesar Vichard de Saint-Real
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
~ Plato
Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.
~ Dan Brown
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
~ Mary Astell
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.
~ Horace
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
~ Seneca the Younger
The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
~ E. F. Schumacher
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
~ Seneca the Younger
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
~ Alain de Botton
Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
~ Clive Barker
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.
~ Thomas Merton
Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.
~ Laozi
When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
~ William O. Douglas
There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.
~ Rhonda Byrne, Hero
Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"
~ John Andreas Widtsoe
Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.
~ Richard Koch
Let us live and move in harmony. Let us grow together. Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
~ Alexander Pope
Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.
~ Horace
Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.
~ Gerald Brooks
It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
~ William Shakespeare
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
~ Pindar