Democritus Quotes
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
Beau Bridges
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden
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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.
Radhanath Swami
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.
Iqbal Quadir
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
Ted Cruz
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
Yehuda Berg
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Khalil Gibran
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I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow the beat, no way in unless we embrace the dark.
Gabrielle Roth
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Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
Harold Washington
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If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.
Lennox Lewis
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We are always just trying to be strong and yet in touch with our bodies and the only way you can really do that is to believe in yourself because that’s all that you have.
Renee O'Connor
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There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.
Democritus