Wisdom Quotes
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Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within.
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When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
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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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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or 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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Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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Passion without purpose is kind of pointless. I think God gives us the vision and wisdom to help enforce what he sees for us. You don't just sit at home and end up on 'Empire.'
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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
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The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away
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Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian.
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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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Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.
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If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
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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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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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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
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When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in 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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Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.
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Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?
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I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness - that the darkness flung me -Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.
