Wisdom Quotes
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Supposing the Mother Earth was very hot like the sun, there would have been no growth, or it was cold like moon, there would have been no growth. It had to come to the centre where it had both the things in proper proportions to grow. In the same way a human being has to work out that you keep a moderation and a balance and understand not to go to extremes of anything. That balance you learn when you love someone.
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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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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
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Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
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There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.
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An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself.
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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.
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Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer. He taught that prayers are always answered: “Everyone who asks receives”. And He implied that prayers are answered rightly because of the heavenly Father's wisdom: “Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him”.
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It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
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A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.
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Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.
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No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.
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When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do.
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There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.
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Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
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It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.
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In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
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Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.
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No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
