Wisdom Quotes
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An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
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Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.
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Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.
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Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
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I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
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Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
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I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.
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The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.
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Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.
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It's ironic that we've built the beauty world around 20-year-olds, when they have no f - kin' concept about wisdom, what life is about, having a few relationships below their belt and feeling hardships, to grow into their skin and feel confident within themselves and to feel the value of who they are, not because of a man or because of something like that. And I think that's such a beautiful thing.
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You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
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I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.
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It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.
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Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days
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This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.
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As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.
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Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
