Wisdom Quotes
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A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.
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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
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A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.
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The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.
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Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful.
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Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.
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A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
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Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.
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Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.
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Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.
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An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
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There is no safety where there is no strength; no strength without Union; no Union without justice; no justice where faith and truth are wanting. The right to be free is a truth planted in the hearts of men.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
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My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair?My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?
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Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.
