Wisdom Quotes
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Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.
Plato -
When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
Robert Baden-Powell
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The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
Robert Baden-Powell -
When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
Plato -
The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.
Patrick Henry -
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
Johann Georg Hamann -
Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Sahaja Yoga is a very subtle happening within us. It's a very subtle happening. And this subtler happening gives you sensitivity to divine joy.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington -
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball -
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
Edward Young -
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
Flann O'Brien -
Nature creates natural swarms. UNU uses networking technology and algorithms to take advantage of the knowledge, wisdom, and insights of a large group of people by allowing them to think as one.
Louis B. Rosenberg -
There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.
David Wilcock
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper -
We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.
Vandana Shiva -
The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny.
John Tenniel -
Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
Martin Luther -
Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.
Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad -
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
Hermann Hesse
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All social movements would gain immensely in enthusiasm, persuasiveness, and wisdom if the hearts of their advocates were cleansed and warmed by religious faith.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.
William Allen White -
We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.
David Jeremiah -
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran