Wisdom Quotes
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Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
Flann O'Brien
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She said that all the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. She and the rebel angels, the followers of wisdom, have always tried to open minds; the Authority and his churches have always tried to keep them closed.
Philip Pullman
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The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
Oliver Goldsmith
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We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.
Frank Abagnale
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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
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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.
Mark Helprin
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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You have to get something that is beyond, something special, something unique that happens to you, by which you become one with the whole. This is what should be asked for, not for all other things that people ask for. Isn't it? That's the truth. You have to achieve it, to be in your collective consciousness.
Nirmala Srivastava
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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?
James Joyce
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There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.
Charles Dickens
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson
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Politics make me sick
William Howard Taft
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Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?
Confucius
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Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.
E. B. White
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Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, Roderick Terry
Alex Rodriguez
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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.
Maria Bartiromo
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I need the Lord's guidance on what to do... I asked God for wisdom.
Ben Carson
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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.
Oliver Cromwell
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A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.
Baden Powell
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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
David Jeremiah
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Americans coming home, an Iran that has rolled back its nuclear program and accepted unprecedented monitoring of the program -these things are a reminder of what we can achieve when we lead with strength and with wisdom, with courage and resolve and patience. America can do and has done big things when we work together.
Barack Obama