Wisdom Quotes
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Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity.
Antonin Scalia
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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?
Aristotle
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The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
Baden Powell
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Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man’s difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole ...
Jane Addams
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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.
Jay Griffiths
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We do not want to make Scout training too soft.
Baden Powell
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
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The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.
James Hilton
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
Sophocles
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I cannot be content with less than heaven;Living, and comprehensive of all life.Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,Star-throned.
Philip James Bailey
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
Louise Erdrich
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I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine
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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.
Epifanio de los Santos
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Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call.
Brian Tracy
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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.
Bill Crawford
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Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
Chuck Noll
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When you’re truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.
Yehuda Berg
