Wisdom Quotes
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With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.
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O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.
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To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
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The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.
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Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
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A fence to wisdom is silence.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
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You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.
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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
