Wisdom Quotes
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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 -
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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Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.
Socrates -
Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.
Socrates -
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil Gibran -
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Og Mandino -
The person I like most is the one who points out my defects
Umar -
Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
Socrates
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
L. Ron Hubbard -
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon -
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 -
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates -
The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.
Lajos Kossuth
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It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
Freeman Dyson -
The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads "Wisdom begins in wonder".
Socrates -
You are not to be guided by your intellect, but by your wisdom, as you are Sahaja Yogis. So, you have a very good instrument of feeling it. Through your vibrations you can make out what is good and what is bad.
Nirmala Srivastava -
The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.
Albert Einstein -
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates
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First appearance deceives many.
Ovid -
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
Xi Jinping -
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen