Wisdom Quotes
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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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As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.
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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
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The wisdom of taking risks early applies to most aspects of life, whether it be career choices, investments, or dating.
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We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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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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It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
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The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
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The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.
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The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
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There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
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I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
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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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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.
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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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Wisdom. No match for the troublemaker Curiosity.
