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"Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom."

Jonathan Sacks on Wisdom

More quotes about Wisdom

  • "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

    Ralph Waldo Emerson on Wisdom

  • "Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you."

    Aldous Huxley on Wisdom

  • "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

    Audrey Hepburn on Wisdom

  • "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

    Confucius on Wisdom

  • "If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

    Michael Jordan on Wisdom

More quotes by Jonathan Sacks

  • "Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology."

  • "Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race."

  • "Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past."

  • "Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity."

  • "Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver."

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