Wisdom Quotes
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It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
Baden Powell
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
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Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
Ezra Stiles
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
Ajahn Brahm
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The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.
James Hilton
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
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The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny.
John Tenniel
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He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it.
Jack London
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Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.
Baden Powell
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
John Updike
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I cannot be content with less than heaven;Living, and comprehensive of all life.Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,Star-throned.
Philip James Bailey
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Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.
Emanuel Geibel
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
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Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The man of wisdom is the man of years.
Edward Young
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Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.
Chip Conley
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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
Moliere
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I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
Maria Bartiromo
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
Francis of Assisi