Wisdom Quotes
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey
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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
Gordon Lightfoot
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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
Bob Woodward
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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.
John C. Calhoun
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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.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
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Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.
Confucius
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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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The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
Socrates
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
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There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.
Nirmala Srivastava
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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.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
Peter Hammill
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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.
Igor Stravinsky
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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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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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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
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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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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar Fiedler
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Rollo May
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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.
Omar Sharif
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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
Aristotle
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The Spirit is the one that is love. Can you understand total love ? Can you understand something that just gives and enjoys giving and not asking for anything ? Loving for loves sake, that's what is your Spirit. It is watching you with that love, that total love.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
Vincent Bugliosi