Wisdom Quotes
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The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.
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Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
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So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
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The heart of Man is not compound of lies, but draws some wisdom from the only Wise.
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No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect and enlarges the heart...only through work do we attain the true symmetry, strength, and glory of godly manhood and womanhood.
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A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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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.
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Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.
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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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We are confronted with the incompatible claims of Jerusalem and Athens to our allegiance. We are open to both and willing to listen to each. We ourselves are not wise but we wish to become wise. We are seekers for wisdom, philo-sophoi.
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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
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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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Politics make me sick
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Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth.
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An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.
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We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
