Wisdom Quotes
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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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.
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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.
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Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
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I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.
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A person is wise who does not only know what is right and wrong, but also he knows very well his own power not to do something wrong. He just does not do it. Wisdom is a complete power within ourselves by which we try nothing. It just spontaneously works through us and we do things which are proper and right.
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All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
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Memory, prophecy and fantasy the past, the future and the dreaming moment between are all one country, living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.
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An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
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A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.
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Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.
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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
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Sincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed, there is human-heartedness; as things are completed, there is wisdom. This is the virtue of one’s character, and the Way of joining the internal and external. Thus, when we use this, everything is correct.
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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.
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The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
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Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
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It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought.
