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Quotes About Wisdom

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
~ Woodrow Wilson
I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
~ Gerald Ford
Scuttlebutt is one of the most overlooked acts that can decrease one's sagacity
~ Sagey Malik
Don't you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.
~ Bob Marley
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
~ Honore de Balzac
Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .
~ John Milton
Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.
~ Elinor Glyn
Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved.
~ Dalai Lama
All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.
~ William Davenant
When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place.
~ Shannon L. Alder
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
~ Winston Churchill
Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
~ Allen Ginsberg
Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.
~ Margaret Edson, Wit
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
~ Jeff Bezos
There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.
~ Confucius
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
~ James Russell Lowell
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
~ Laozi
Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.
~ Thubten Yeshe
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
~ George D. Prentice
How wise must one be to be always kind.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?
~ Lawrence G. Lovasik