Wisdom Quotes
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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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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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
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Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
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A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding...
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An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.
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The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
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Lord - Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will.
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Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.
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Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
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Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
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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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When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.
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I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
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Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
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Don't gain the world and lose your soul Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
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But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.
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I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life,
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See things from the boy's point of view.
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Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.
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You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
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The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power.
