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Quotes About Wisdom

Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day.
~ Thaddeus Golas
The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.
~ Epictetus
Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
~ Anita Brookner
Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
He who did not taste Freedom on Earth, will not know it in Heaven!
~ Mikhail Naimy
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
~ Victor Hugo
Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.
~ Smokey Robinson
No one who lives in error is free.
~ Euripides
A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.
~ Clark Moustakas
Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
~ Byron Katie
Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.
~ Immanuel Kant
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
~ Ayn Rand
The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.
~ Carol Grace
Freedom can occur only through education.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.
~ Sai Baba
Books were my pass to personal freedom.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
~ George W. Bush
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
~ Epictetus
To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.
~ Virginia Woolf
And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson