Wisdom Quotes
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The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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You must remember that our God has all knowledge and all wisdom, and that therefore it is very possible He may guide you into paths wherein He knows great blessings are awaiting you, but which, to the shortsighted human eyes around you, seem sure to result in confusion and loss.
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The so-called oligarchs have always had less influence than conventional wisdom attributed to them.
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The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
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Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
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When you become thoughtless, then you can see, feel Reality.
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Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
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When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'
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A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.
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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 ...
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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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My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go to him and find out what the trouble is, then try to remove it with the wisdom which the Lord bestows upon you; and the first thing you know, your gloom is gone, you feel light, the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, and everything seems illuminated.
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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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I associate wisdom and grace with age.
