Wisdom Quotes
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
Ajahn Brahm
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Not all the wisdom and skill of man can produce life in the smallest object in nature.
Ellen G. White
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There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.
Charles Dickens
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Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
Mark Helprin
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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
Plato
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
Diogenes
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I need the Lord's guidance on what to do... I asked God for wisdom.
Ben Carson
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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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Don't ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that'll get you a million dollars - your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don't go crazy, make sure I help my family.
Future
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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.
Baden Powell
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The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.
James Hilton
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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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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
George Bernard Shaw
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Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom.
Wayne Teasdale
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Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.
William Camden
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
Plato
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.
A. C. Dixon
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
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If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.
Charlie Pierce