Wisdom Quotes
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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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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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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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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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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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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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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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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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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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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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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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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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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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For those of you who pray, I ask that you pray that I will always judge with wisdom and integrity as a faithful servant of the law.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
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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
