Saint Augustine Quotes
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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 -
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 -
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
Saint Francis de Sales
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
Zoe Kazan -
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon -
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden -
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater -
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 -
When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.
Fabrizio Moreira
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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 -
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine -
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell -
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Walter Scott -
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke
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Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
Seneca the Younger -
Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.
Emile Souvestre -
It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.
Yasmin Ahmad -
Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.
Elfriede Jelinek -
The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.
Christian de Duve -
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine