John Quincy Adams Quotes
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
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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.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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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.
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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.
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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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Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
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There is no wisdom save in truth.
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The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.
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I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.
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I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.
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The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
