Wisdom Quotes
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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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When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'
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All social movements would gain immensely in enthusiasm, persuasiveness, and wisdom if the hearts of their advocates were cleansed and warmed by religious faith.
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
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Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history.
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'To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,' Viviane said. 'Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.'
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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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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in lifeBut needs it, and may learn.
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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
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Various justifications for lower capital-gains rates have been proffered over the years, none of them self-evident. But even conceding the wisdom of lower capital-gains rates, why should they never be taxed at all, even as they are passed from generation to generation?
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God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.
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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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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!
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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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There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day.
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'It is easy to judge evil unmixed,' replied Gwydion. 'But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.'
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Wisdom precludes boldness.
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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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There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.
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Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.
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For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.
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A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
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Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.
