Wisdom Quotes
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The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does not belong to any one culture or religion, nor does it come only from the West or the East. Rather it is a tradition of human warrior-ship that has existed in many cultures at many times throughout history.
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God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
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If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your principles. Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdom; that is obstinacy. Principles should be fluid because life is fluid.
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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
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As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
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The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
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Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.
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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
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The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.
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You accumulate emotional wisdom as you get older. You know, when you're 25, you go on blind dates with people that, when you're 50, you know to stay away from.
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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. 'Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'' Businessweek (5 July 1999)
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
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Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.
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I'm looking for a market for wisdom.
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
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Focus on what it is that you want, set a realistic goal. Start setting goals that you feel you can accomplish. Don't try to go right to the top in one leap. Every time you accomplish a goal you develop the strength and wisdom to accomplish the next one.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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When you’re truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.
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To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
