Wisdom Quotes
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
Robert Frost
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To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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Being a student meant always looking up to someone wiser and always measuring yourself against that wisdom and knowledge.
Alice Steinbach
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In an era of too much information, the need for discernment and wisdom will be greater than ever.
Craig Detweiler
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
Socrates
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The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I think either party would have seen the wisdom in bailing out the American automobile industry, because one job in ten in the United States is either directly or indirectly connected to the automobile industry. You just could not let these companies go down.
Bob Lutz
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Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.
Cass McCombs
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Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.
Doris Lessing
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When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.
Marianne Williamson
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If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.
Gautama Buddha
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
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Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch
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The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system.
Nirmala Srivastava
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I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
Hillary Clinton
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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
George Bernard Shaw
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Innocence is the way you really give fun to others, create the fun part of it. The fun is created only through innocence and innocence is the only way you can really emit also the fun. Imagine this world without any fun, what would happen? But people are very much confused between fun and the pleasure. The pleasure is nice to begin with and horrible to end with. But fun is a treasure. Anything that is full of fun you remember all your life.
Nirmala Srivastava
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I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.
Jim Broadbent
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Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days
Hafez
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
William Gilmore Simms
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It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.
B. J. Palmer