Wisdom Quotes
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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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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice.
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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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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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Hail hero, hail hero, child of your fate Come into the kitchen don't stand by the gate And show us your wisdom before it's too late
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Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.
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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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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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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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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 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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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
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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.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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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 highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
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This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom.
