Wisdom Quotes
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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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Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
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Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
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An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that 'when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.'
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
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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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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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Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.
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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
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See things from the boy's point of view.
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Wisdom sits aloneTopmost in Heaven.
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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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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
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Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom.
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Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
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Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
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A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce.
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Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
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Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy-of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.
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Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.
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Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.
