Wisdom Quotes
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You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
Wallace Stevens
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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.
Haile Selassie
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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.
Pierre Charron
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If he didn't have the calf situation, he would have practiced, ... He played extremely well. . . . The game was very physical and he got some hits. Quarterback-wise, the odds that we can go through the year like that and keep the guy healthy. . . . I hope we can keep him healthy.
Joe Gibbs
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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
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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.
Ogden Nash
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
Parker Palmer
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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.
Sigmund Freud
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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.
Karl G. Maeser
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
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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.
Tatiana Maslany
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Gabriel Marcel
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Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
Bruce Lipton
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Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
John Lancaster Spalding
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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.
Ed Miliband
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
D. H. Lawrence
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
Ted Cruz
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Your prayers are your light;
Rabia Basri
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
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Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
Gautama Buddha