Wisdom Quotes
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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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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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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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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You may think, passer-by, that FateIs a pit-fall outside of yourself,Around which you may walk by the use of foresightAnd wisdom.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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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.
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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
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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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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
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It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.
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If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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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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I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah
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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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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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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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Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.
