Wisdom Quotes
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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
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I'm looking for a market for wisdom.
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In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.
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My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.
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Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.
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I need the Lord's guidance on what to do... I asked God for wisdom.
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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
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I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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There will be commotions and turbulent times, Seek no peace - it will not accrue to thee. The Ruler of Heaven knows thy prayer. From his ardent wrath thy praise has propitiated him The Sovereign King of Glory addresses me with wisdom Hast thou seen the dominus fortis? Knowest thou the profound prediction domini?
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Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
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Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
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Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.
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I interpreted all you did as weakness - but I should have known that it was wisdom and strength, freely shared with all of us, even the ones who don't deserve it.
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Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
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For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.
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Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
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I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.
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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.
