Wisdom Quotes
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.
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Wisdom married to immortal verse.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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So I say to you, citizens of the last Arab country, this is a time for courage, for unity, for wisdom, for determination, to face these enemies with the dignity your president has shown, and I believe, God willing, we will prevail and triumph, wa-salam aleikum.
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There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to Heaven.
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A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
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One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.
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True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
