Wisdom Quotes
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A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
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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.
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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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If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.
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It seems the collective wisdom of the community came up with a sensible compromise. I think this is probably the best we can expect.
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No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.
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Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood
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But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.
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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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No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
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He brought his malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom to the front.
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Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.
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No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or more intimate associates, which may be inferred both from his birth, and his versatile wisdom.
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A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.
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Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.
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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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Passion without purpose is kind of pointless. I think God gives us the vision and wisdom to help enforce what he sees for us. You don't just sit at home and end up on 'Empire.'
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Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
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The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
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I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
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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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It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
