Anne Bradstreet Quotes
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.Anne Bradstreet
Quotes to Explore
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey -
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
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 -
With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Nas
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon -
We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
Yoko Ono -
The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
Said Nursi -
It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
Ted Cruz -
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
Barack Obama -
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
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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 -
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
Robert Baden-Powell -
Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.
Socrates -
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch -
Do you think your Mother and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?
John Gay -
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet