Wisdom Quotes
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Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom.
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The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise heart transplants, but do little for the 15 million who die annually of malnutrition and related diseases. Our cleverness has grown prodigiously - but not our wisdom.
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Sincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed, there is human-heartedness; as things are completed, there is wisdom. This is the virtue of one’s character, and the Way of joining the internal and external. Thus, when we use this, everything is correct.
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Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
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There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.
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Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.
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It was always important to me to make sure Pooh came across as much more than a bear of very little brain. There is an innate wisdom there somewhere.
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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
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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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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups.
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Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.
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Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.
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Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
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No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
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When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
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Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.
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How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.
