Wisdom Quotes
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Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
Bennie Thompson
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Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
Saint Augustine
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I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered.
George Allen
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It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.
John Ralston Saul
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost
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The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
C. S. Lewis
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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
Saint Augustine
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Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
William Hazlitt
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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
Plato
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I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.
Lin Yutang
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He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand.
Constance Naden
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As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.
Dalai Lama
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We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.
Baden Powell
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We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.
William Reddington Hewlett
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!
Charlize Theron
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By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Mark Cuban
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The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance, when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter.
Abd Allah ibn 'Amr ibn al
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There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.
Oprah Winfrey
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Plautus
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Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.
Gautama Buddha
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.
Heraclitus
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The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.
Baden Powell