Wisdom Quotes
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
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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.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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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.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
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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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'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.
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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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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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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.
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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 early bird catches the worm.
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…if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
