Wisdom Quotes
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.
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At her station in life, wisdom dictated keeping a low profile.And yet...
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One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.
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I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.
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Wisdom married to immortal verse.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.
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For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
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What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.
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There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to Heaven.
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
