Wisdom Quotes
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You are that rarest of creatures: a man with the wisdom to see beyond his own time.
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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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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
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The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
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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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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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A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
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I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.
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Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
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Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them.
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Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
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Passion without purpose is kind of pointless. I think God gives us the vision and wisdom to help enforce what he sees for us. You don't just sit at home and end up on 'Empire.'
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But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.
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Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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Now by knowing absolute truth you understand each other much more. That means a collective consciousness, a new dimension in your awareness. You can feel others on your finger tips and if you know how to correct your centers you can help them. Then who is the other? The microcosm becomes the macrocosm.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
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There is a lot of wisdom in selling off some subscribers because it just eases that regulatory question. This hastens the time when there is real competition in local phone.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
