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Quotes About Wisdom

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
~ Confucius
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
~ Kin Hubbard
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
~ Joyce Cary
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
~ Albert Einstein
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
~ Francis Bacon
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
~ Kabir
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.
~ Madame de Stael
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
~ Anonymous
In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.
~ Garrison Keillor
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
~ Euripides
Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.
~ Anne Ellis
I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
~ Eleonora Duse
Cats know not how to pardon.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Know all and you will pardon all.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.
~ John Lydon
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The more people know, the more they forgive.
~ Confucius
Who understands much, forgives much.
~ Madame de Stael
Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.
~ Carrie Fisher