Wisdom Quotes
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What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
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To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.
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My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
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We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.
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Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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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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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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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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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.
