Plato Quotes
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams -
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
Sam Harris -
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.
H. R. McMaster -
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
Yair Lapid -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
Ed Miliband -
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu -
It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
Ted Cruz -
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Walter Scott -
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
Vikas Swarup -
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Omar N. Bradley -
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 -
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Hal Borland
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle -
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther -
I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?
Tananarive Due -
Please. Don’t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don’t express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.
Sarah Kane -
Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
Plato