Wisdom Quotes
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We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.
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Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.
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Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
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Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.
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Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run. You had to have a background that was politically scrubbed. In other words, smart people who didn't live perfect lives could never run.
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How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.
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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
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Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.
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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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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
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In idle wishes fools supinely stay;Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
