Francis Bacon Quotes
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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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.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
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It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
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...Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!
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New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do everything. It's nice to have the balance in Moscow.
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Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.
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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
