Wisdom Quotes
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I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.
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I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.
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God in His infinite wisdom knows exactly what adversity we need to grow more and more into the likeness of His Son. He not only knows what we need but when we need it and how best to bring it to pass in out lives. He is the perfect teacher or coach. His discipline is always exactly suited for our needs. He never overtrains by allowing too much adversity into our lives.
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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.
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Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all bare-No wisdom won with weariness;But Love goes in with Folly's dress-No fame that wit could ever win;But only Love may lead Love in.
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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
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There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.
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A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
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There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress
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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.
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We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.
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Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.
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A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.
