Wisdom Quotes
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
Xenophanes
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
Leonardo da Vinci
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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.
Pope Theodoros II
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Giving opens the way for receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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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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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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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.
Maimonides
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The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
Pat Robertson
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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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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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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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Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
Walter Cronkite
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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.
Heraclitus
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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.
Jacques Lacan
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
Pankaj Mishra
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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
George MacDonald
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We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
Aristotle