Wisdom Quotes
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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
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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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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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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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Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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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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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.
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He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?
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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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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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I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.
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O Lord...
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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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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.
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Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
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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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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.
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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
