Wisdom Quotes
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.
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You accumulate emotional wisdom as you get older. You know, when you're 25, you go on blind dates with people that, when you're 50, you know to stay away from.
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A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
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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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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of 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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There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.
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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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Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
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The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
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If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence.
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No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or more intimate associates, which may be inferred both from his birth, and his versatile wisdom.
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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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Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
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Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.
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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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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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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
