Wisdom Quotes
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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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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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.
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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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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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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
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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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I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah
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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 speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.
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The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
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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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Giving opens the way for receiving.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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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.
