Wisdom Quotes
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When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.
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I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society.
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I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.
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However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
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The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.
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The early bird catches the worm.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.
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Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason.
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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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One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?
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I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life,
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
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You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
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Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present.
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The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
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We should not go to the people and say, 'Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our presence, to teach you our science, to show you your errors, your lack of culture, your ignorance of elementary things.' We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn at that great source of wisdom that is the people.
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
