Wisdom Quotes
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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The fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom. This life is one great object lesson to practice on the principles of immortality and eternal life. Man grows with his higher aims. Let naught that is unholy enter here.
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You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.
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The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
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You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success.
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There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.
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It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government which has been the work exclusively of foresight and wisdom. They have all been the result of a fortunate combination of circumstances.
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I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
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To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
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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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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
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Oh, things are frequently what they seem,And this is wisdom's crown:Only the game fish swims upstream,But the sensible fish swims down.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in charge of each religion plucked the flowers from the living source and are now fighting each other with the dead flowers of merely partial truths.
