Wisdom Quotes
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A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
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Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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When you become thoughtless, then you can see, feel Reality.
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If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair.
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We do not want to make Scout training too soft.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.
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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.
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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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One of the best pieces of wisdom I ever got is you work because you work, meaning you work because you're saying yes to things, and you're connecting with people.
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The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
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What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that Divine itself has to be proved. That God Almighty has to be proved. That Christ as a son of God has to be proved, that His birth as immaculate conception has to be proved. Not by argument, not by reasoning, nor by blind faith but by actualization on your central nervous system.
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For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
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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 thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.
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If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.
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Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.
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You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.
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Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.
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Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
