Wisdom Quotes
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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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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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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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Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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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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The early bird catches the worm.
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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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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
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O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.
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When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check when you need it: a mirror reflection of myself. I believe that we are a result of our family - the people who encourage us and tell us the truth about who we are which helps us to grow through their advice and 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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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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One of the basic things we should avoid is to criticize others. Better to criticize yourself. Criticize yourself, criticize your brothers and sisters, criticize your country, criticize all the habits you have and laugh at yourself, is the best way. If you know how to laugh at yourself then you will not object or will not stand in the way of any creativity of another person.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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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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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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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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Giving opens the way for receiving.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession.
