Wisdom Quotes
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.
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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
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A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
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[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.
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We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.
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O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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Wisdom sits aloneTopmost in Heaven.
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Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.
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Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.
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People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.
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You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
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Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.
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The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who 'reduced to absurdity' 'the wisdom of this world' (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is in truth only an indication of Paul's resolute determination to accomplish that very thing himself: to give one's own will the name of God, Torah - that is essentially Jewish.
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I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.
