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.
Rabindranath Tagore -
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 -
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 -
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
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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.
H. R. McMaster -
With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Nas -
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon -
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
Pankaj Mishra -
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow -
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.
Dag Hammarskjold -
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 -
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.
Patricia Richardson -
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu -
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine -
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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Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
Bruce Lipton -
You are my pride and joyAnd I just love you, little darlin'Like a baby boy loves his toyYou've got kisses sweeter than honeyAnd I work every day to give you all I knowAnd that's why you're my pride and joy.
Marvin Gaye -
How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Thug: This is a stickup! Now come on. Your money or your life.
Jack Benny -
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
John Quincy Adams