Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Chinese Wisdom
In crisis, wisdom growth,
And gained.
Intelligence endowed,
But wisdom is learned.
Wise men listen more,
Talk no nonsense.
Wise men may be learned
But learned men may not be wise.
A silent fool can pass for a wise man.
Silence is golden & wise,
Silence is the trusted friend of wisdom.
It is easy to blame our memory
when our judgment is at fault.
It takes a tree ten years to mature;
It takes a man one hundred years to form.
We grow old fast,
We grow wise slowly.
Youth can look only forward,
but age can also look backward.
Maturity and wisdom
take a lifetime to achieve.
Achieving maturity does not
Grow with age.
Wisdom grows when
Ones learned to avoid the wrongs.
Stand for the rights.
Biggest flaw of ones
Has a lot of flaws and
Not correcting them,
Not avoiding them.
Life is a learning journey
To discover who we are,
Learning as if life is
one continuous lesson.
Wisdom is attained by learning
when to hold one’s tongue.
Discretion is the trusted friend of wisdom.
A wise head must possess a closed mouth.
Compiled & adapted by Lawrence Hiung
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Wisdom is attained by learning when to hold one's tongue.
Ch 07 On The Effects Of Education Story 11
When I was a child I asked an illustrious man about puberty. He replied: ‘It is recorded in books that it has three signs. First, the age of fifteen years; secondly nocturnal pollutions; and thirdly, sprouting of hair on the pudenda; but in reality there is only one sign which is sufficient that thou shouldst seek the approbation of the most high and glorious rather than to be in the bondage of sensual pleasures; and whoever does not entertain this disposition is by erudite men considered not to have attained puberty.’
The form of man was attained by a drop of water
Which remained forty days in the womb.
If in forty years it has not attained sense and propriety
It can in reality not be called a man.
Virility consists in liberality and amiableness.
Think not that it is only in the material figure.
Virtue is necessary because the form may be painted
In halls with vermilion or verdigris.
If a man possesses not excellence and goodness
What is the difference between him and a picture on the wall?
It is no virtue to gain the whole world.
Gain the heart of one person if thou canst.
The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.
quote by Robert Sternberg
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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
quote by Charles Inglis
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Wisdom defined.
What is wisdom?
An accumulation of knowledge:
the practice of ethics and codes,
intelligence or intuition?
Not so.
The ability to see the seed
in a tree and the tree in a seed.
The realization of the universe.
Immune to emotion and prejudice.
If so, an eminent scientist
should fit in well as a man of wisdom.
But he is the least in the governing body.
04.05.2001, Pmdi
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.
quote by Rabbi Ben-Azai
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
quote by Lord Chesterfield
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
quote by Elbert Hubbard
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
quote by Bela Lugosi
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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
quote by Robbie Gass
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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
quote by Robert Half
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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
quote by Herbie Hancock
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Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
quote by William Eardley IV
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What Makes Us Human
I believe ability makes us intelligent, it distinguishes us from animals
I believe all have the ability to learn, to create art, to love
I believe we can let our ability go to waste, or we can let it flourish
I believe our ability that makes us human is our intelligence and good judgement
I believe many choose to ignore this ability and rely on animalistic instinct
I believe some humans treat animals better than humans
I believe to make this world peaceful we need to let our abilities flourish
It is curious that many people advocate humane treatment for animals, but treat actual humans inhumanely
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The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
quote by Giacomo Casanova
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My Life Has Been Unleavened Bread
My life has been
what it has been.
It was whatever it was.
I am that which I am.
There were times of intensity
purpose disciplined focus
faith belief vision especially
late teenage increasingly
in supposedly mature years.
Years of serious contemplation.
There were broken times
utter hopelessness
disorientation depressions
fear apathy especially
in early childhood in sad bad
times in veins of bitter years.
But God was never indifferent
watching waiting patient
as life lesson knowledge wisdom
was hammered home
in schools of hard taught knocks.
God was patient with me
as God said he would be.
Faith may have been broken
gone at times years but
ever reborn in converting
casting off of skins
of former mind lives
in growing molding
transformations ability
the scribe has yet to run
the remainder of good race.
Those that endure to the end
will as the bride of Christ
be invited into the wedding
feast of the lamb in heaven
bodies souls rise unleavened bread.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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