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1 " Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely. But without knowledge, it is harder to be wise –– even if what wisdom tells us is that knowledge is very often provisional and that we cannot wait to have certainty about every fact before we act. "
― , The State of the World Atlas
2 " The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. "
― Henry David Thoreau , Walden
3 " She has never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess. That she had managed to keep it inside her this long was astounding to James. He thought of pushing open the half-closed door and kneeling before his wife, wrapping his arms around her shoulders and helping her upstairs. He raised his hand, stroking the wood of the door, planning to say something to calm her. But what wisdom could he offer Gus, when he could not even heed it himself? James walked upstairs again, got into bed, covered his head with a pillow. And hours later, when Gus crept beneath the sheets, he tried to pretend that he did not feel the weight of her grief, lying between them like a fitful child, so solid that he could not reach past it to touch her. "
― Jodi Picoult , The Pact
4 " You don’t create your thoughts, but you choose your thoughts. To pick the right thoughts at a right time is what wisdom is all about. "
― Roshan Sharma
5 " You have to read between the lines, I saw it all in her eyes before her actions came to life, and it’s what wisdom is all about "
6 " It's very hard to know what wisdom is. "
7 " In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. "
