Wisdom Quotes
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Sincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed, there is human-heartedness; as things are completed, there is wisdom. This is the virtue of one’s character, and the Way of joining the internal and external. Thus, when we use this, everything is correct.
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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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Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
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Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.
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Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
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As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
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The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.
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Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
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Conventional wisdom is you don't need too many bond funds.
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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
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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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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.
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Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.
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My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some
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The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny.
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If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.
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“But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.”
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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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First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.
