Wisdom Quotes
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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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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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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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The person I like most is the one who points out my defects
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I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
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Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.
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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.
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The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
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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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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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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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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
