Wisdom Quotes
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When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.
John McCain -
We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
Radhanath Swami
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We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
Adrian Grenier -
My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
Kapil Sibal -
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France -
Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting.
Rabia Basri -
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
John Webster -
Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.
David Morrell -
I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they have an understanding of how to apply the law in their times in a way that's completely consistent with the text of the law and the purposes of the law, and in a way that's completely right for the times in which they live in.
Elena Kagan -
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry -
'You must save yourselves,' Rogol Domedonfors told them. 'You have ignored the ancient wisdom, you have been too indolent to learn, you have sought easy complacence from religion, rather than facing manfully to the world.'
Jack Vance -
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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Love, in the final analysis, is wisdom.
E. W. Kenyon -
The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
Socrates -
The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.
Tad Williams -
The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
Said Nursi -
Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.
Yanis Varoufakis -
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
Rene Descartes -
Wisdom belongs in wonder.
Socrates -
When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
Radhanath Swami -
Wisdom comes with winters.
Oscar Wilde