Wisdom Quotes
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If thou couldst trust, poor soul!In Him who rules the whole,Thou wouldst find peace and rest;Wisdom and sight are well, but trust is best.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
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Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
J. I. Packer
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Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.
Mark Canton
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
Bernard DeVoto
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In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
Deepak Chopra
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If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
Jane Smiley
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
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Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.
Charles Hazlewood
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Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
Umar
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For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.
Francis Bacon
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'To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,' Viviane said. 'Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.'
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
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The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
Robert Baden-Powell
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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
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Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history. Finally, a few trips to the library, and we have a pretty good sense of what all the masters said. They all said the same things. There is a mass discovery that Jesus is truth, the Torah is truth, Mohammed is truth, Krishna is truth, Buddha is truth, and so on. They are all truth and they are all among us now.
Marianne Williamson
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The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.
P. J. O'Rourke
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A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
Baden Powell
