Wisdom Quotes
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
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Various justifications for lower capital-gains rates have been proffered over the years, none of them self-evident. But even conceding the wisdom of lower capital-gains rates, why should they never be taxed at all, even as they are passed from generation to generation?
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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
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Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
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Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.
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You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.
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The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.
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I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.
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O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.
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Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.
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For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.
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Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
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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.
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Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
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Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.
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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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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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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.
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The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.
