Wisdom Quotes
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A judge's role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.
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There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day.
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When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.
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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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They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with a rod; they went out into the hostile desert and adorned it with a pillar; they entered the furnace, fiercely heated, and sprinkled it with their dew; into the pit where they had been thrown an angel entered and taught its wild beasts to fast.
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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!
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Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
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Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
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I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.
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Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business.
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Various justifications for lower capital-gains rates have been proffered over the years, none of them self-evident. But even conceding the wisdom of lower capital-gains rates, why should they never be taxed at all, even as they are passed from generation to generation?
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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 Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.
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If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
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Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
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Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
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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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The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
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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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When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.
