John Quincy Adams Quotes

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

John Quincy Adams

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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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• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

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• Patience is the companion of wisdom.

  

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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.

  

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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

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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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• Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• With age comes common sense and wisdom.

  

  Nas
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• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
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• If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  

  Abraham Maslow
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• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

  

  Saint Basil
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• We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

  

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• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

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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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• 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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• I cannot be content with less than heaven;Living, and comprehensive of all life.Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,Star-throned.

  

  Philip James Bailey
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• Innocence is something to be appreciated, to be understood, to be enjoyed. Like you see animals, they're innocent; you see children, they're innocent; flowers, they're innocent. Divert your attention to all these things.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
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• I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
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• Get married wherever you like, make accommodations for the people you love so they can attend, and forget about the people who can't.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • People

• You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • People
  • God
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• The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Wisdom