Wisdom Quotes
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I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has already happened, and I have nothing to show for it. No treasure house of collection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
S. J. Watson
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He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow
Saadi
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Wisdom precludes boldness.
Patrick Rothfuss
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We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.
Walt Disney
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The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.
Dale E. Turner
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The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
Flann O'Brien
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He brought his malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom to the front.
John Steinbeck
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Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history.
Albert Pike
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
Abraham Lincoln
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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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Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.
Ana Castillo
