Democritus Quotes
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine -
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 -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon -
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 -
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 -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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 -
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
J. B. Priestley -
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson -
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
Ralph Cudworth
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I know the dark delight of being strange,The penalty of difference in the crowd,The loneliness of wisdom among fools
Claude McKay -
Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
Rachel Ward -
I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I could live a week on one good compliment.
Bill Vaughan -
I don't have the time to think about what someone else thinks of me because I'm busy making films.
Ram Gopal Varma -
There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.
Democritus