Wisdom Quotes
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Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.
Hafez
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Quintilian
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
Hamza Yusuf
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
H. R. McMaster
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There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body.
Gautama Buddha
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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Aristotle
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Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
Daisaku Ikeda
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And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
Rene Descartes
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True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
Socrates
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed.
John Graham Mellor
The 101ers
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle
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One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.
David Morrell
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
