Wisdom Quotes
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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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'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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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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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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…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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With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
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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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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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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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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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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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To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.
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Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
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O Lord...
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.
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There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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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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God in his wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
